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...been hurt far less. And even though Pakistan is still poor and underdeveloped, its economy is healthy and growing. In fact, aided by a 9% increase in the output of its new heavy industries (shipbuilding, petrochemicals), Pakistan's gross national product is expected to rise 5.2% this year. Pakistani exports are doing so well on the world market that the country has nearly cut in half its dependence on outside economic...
...Since World War II, the U.S. has sold and given to friendly nations nearly $50 billion worth of arms, generally with the full support of Congress. Of late, however, many political leaders have undergone a change of heart. With the Indian-Pakistani war in 1965 and this year's Arab-Israeli hostilities-both conflicts in which American weapons were used by each side against the other-Senate critics have charged that U.S. arms sales, far from serving freedom and peace, may actually do the opposite. Last week, after bitter Senate debate, Administration forces defeated, by 49 votes...
Died. Fatima Jinnah, 74, spinster sister and confidante of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, longtime Pakistani nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...
...British have always been stuffy about race, but the stuffiness has grown with the influx in recent years of some 625,000 immigrants. Whether a man is a blue-black African, a coffee-colored Jamaican, an Aryan Pakistani or even a Cypriot of Greek descent, he is considered "colored" in Britain - and almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt...
Practically no jobs at all are open to dark-skinned skilled workers. "The men in this shop do not work with coloreds," a West Indian cabinetmaker was told. A Pakistani was refused a job as a gas pipefitter because "colored people can't work in white homes." The applicant for another job was turned away with an even simpler explanation: "No black bastards wanted...