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...envoys. But America's allies and much of the nonaligned world clearly were impressed. Indian Prime Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin-yo aru hikeshi otoko-"the trustworthy man who puts out fires." Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina goes to Moscow this week to sign Russo-Japanese air and trade agreements, and, he, too, promised to urge...
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India died of a heart attack last night in Tashkent, U.S.S.R., hours after signing a limited agreement on Kashmir with Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan...
Shastri had been in Tashkent since Jan. 2 at the invitation of Soviet Premier Alexel N. Kosygin to discuss peace between India and Pakistan. Although the pact signed yesterday did not settle the main issue, possession of Pakistan, Shastri and Ayub agreed to start withdrawing troops from each others' soil and to work for peace...
...Ayub and Shastri meet in Tashkent this week under the sponsoring eye of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, that old Uzbek saying sounds overoptimistic. Kosygin invited the pair to Tashkent during the height of last summer's Indo-Pakistani border war. Since then, an uneasy, U.N.-imposed "ceasefire" has been torn almost daily by vicious, small-scale clashes, and both sides have counted more than 3,596 "violations...
...Ayub's winter-bound capital of Rawalpindi, war fever still runs high. Sandbags are piled around government buildings, air-raid trenches kept clear and ready. In the brunt of the summer's fighting, war readiness has become a way of life. In Lahore, scene of much of last summer's fighting, hardy Pakistanis last week nibbled sweets and kept their horse-driven tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to rust...