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...Dirksen, 72, in Walter Reed Hospital with severe bruises after he fell from his dining room table while attempting to replace a light bulb; Patrick Lyndon Nugent, nine months, running a fever of 104°, high enough to bring a doctor to the White House; Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, 60, reportedly ill with pneumonia, though rumors buzz in Karachi that he has suffered a stroke; Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, 41, in St. Margaret's Hospital in Montgomery after an operation for an abdominal infection, having already undergone surgery for cancer three times in the past two years...
Curle is tight-lipped on the negotiations between Ayub Khan and Shastri. When he was contacted--by the British and American Quakers with the "knowledge and consent" of the fighting governments, the U.N. and the State Department--the guns were silent, but barely so. Apparently one of his key objectives was simply to ease tensions. "We were able perhaps to convey expression of opinion which helped understanding a little," he says cautiously. Since there were a whole series of more formal mediation efforts in the works, Curle hesitates to claim credit for any specified accords. He feels, though, that...
Once a military stronghold for maharajahs, the fortress of Mangla in West Pakistan has in recent years commanded nothing more than a sweeping view of a river valley to the southwest and snow-tipped mountains to the north. Last week Pakistan President Ayub Khan came to Mangla to dedicate its new clay and sandstone dam-part of a $2 billion complex that when completed will be the world's largest irrigation network, bringing water to 30 million acres of land and serving the 50 million people who live in the vast Indus River basin...
...nationwide television program, President Mohammed Ayub Khan, 60, blamed neighboring India for the bad relations between the two countries that cost each of them millions every year in armament outlays. He also scoffed at India's preoccupation with China. "All this fear about China is nonsense," said Ayub, whose country, unlike India, has not suffered Chinese attack. "The Chinese have no intention of getting embroiled in this vast subcontinent with its teeming millions." If the President's pronouncement was correct, it was the happiest message that either Pakistan or India could receive as the two countries enter their...
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...