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After a decade of mere talk about autonomy from West Pakistan, political leaders of East Pakistan took matters into their own hands last week and, in a violent 24-hour strike by thousands of workingmen, underlined their demands for freedom from President Mohammed Ayub Khan's western seat of power. The Easterners have a point. The two sections of the country, separated by nearly 1,000 miles of Indian territory, share neither borders nor cultures. West Pakistan is Middle Eastern, hot and dry in climate, puritanical in morals, warlike in manners, and multilingual. East Pakistan smacks of the Orient...
...week's end, both East and West Pakistan were squaring off against each other. "It's going to be a long, drawn-out effort," says Syed Zahiruddin, a Dacca attorney and the league's executive secretary. Ayub compares the current tensions to the U.S. situation just before the Civil War. "If necessary," Ayub warns menacingly, "the language of weapons will have to speak...
...Pakistan overplayed the welcome? Not as far as visiting Communist Chinese President Liu Shao-chi was concerned. But President Mohammed Ayub Khan, his host, seemed to be having second thoughts last week as Pakistanis gave Liu, 68, and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, 65, the headiest welcome ever accorded state visitors to their country. After tumultuous greetings in Rawalpindi (TIME, April 1), perhaps 1,000,000 people poured into the streets of Lahore, the old Mogul capital, sprinkling rose water into the path of the Chinese, heaping flower petals on Liu's car, shouting "Long live Pakistan-China friendship...
...Ayub himself did not seem too comfortable as the five-day tour wore on. At Islamabad, where Pakistan is building a new capital, Liu planted a Chinese tallow tree, declaring, "We hope that it grows and flourishes like the friendship between Pakistan and China." Asked Ayub, in his clipped Sandhurst English: "It becomes a big tree, does it?" And at a banquet where Liu unexpectedly offered not only a toast but also a prepared text for the press, the Pakistani President-more likely in reference to the meal than the occasion-intoned coolly, "I hope you have...
...Chinese come visiting? With their ideological enemies, the Russians, dominating Communist headlines at the Soviet 23rd Party Congress in Moscow, Peking had to show that there was at least one "nonaligned" capital where they could visit without fear of insult. Ayub...