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Throughout the land, Indians wept and fasted for the remainder of the day. As the news slowly spread to the remote provinces, some feared that Nehru's passing would trigger war or natural disasters-and, in fact, Delhi was twice shaken by earth tremors. Many gathered to chant: "May Nehru live long after his death...
...left-wing marine commander resigned, later to be restored; then the conservative navy minister resigned, to be replaced by one of the navy's most outspoken leftists. The new minister meekly gave the mutinous servicemen full pardons and weekend passes. But for several tense hours, Rio was a trigger pull away from widespread violence-even civil...
...religious violence that has ripped India and Pakistan for months was touched off by a hair trigger. When a brownish bristle from the head of the Prophet Mohammed was stolen from a mosque in Kashmir last December, long dormant hatreds erupted between the Hindus and Moslems. Though the relic was ultimately recovered, anti-Hindu rioting broke out in Kashmir and East Pakistan. When refugees reached near by Calcutta with tales of Moslem terror, the Hindus struck back...
...officer of the John Birch Society. In recent issues of American Opinion, the Birch magazine, he published, under the title "Marxmanship in Dallas," the most elaborate version yet of the diehard "plot" theory of the Kennedy assassination. The Communists executed the President, says Oliver, intending to blame ultrarightists and trigger "a domestic takeover." Not that Oliver misses Kennedy: as long as there are Americans, he writes, Kennedy's "memory will be cherished with distaste...
...would continue might be forced to sell off to pay their debts. For another, banks and savings and loan associations that are lending money on the inflated values might not be able to retrieve the full amount of their mortgages, would find themselves in serious trouble. All this could trigger a price collapse that would burst the land-boom bubble, but few expect this to happen soon-if at all. Despite the high prices, strong and rising demand still supports the cost of land...