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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Phyllis Newman appears as a desert tribe princess who wants to trade her prisoner for a camel in "The Arabian Affair." Color...
...Sundra, a caravansary in the salt wastes of the Thar, Pakistani irregulars were doing their laundry one morning when an Indian 3-in. mortar shell slammed into their midst. Killed: a brown goat. The Paks - camel-riding Indus Rangers and bearded Hur rifle men - ducked behind mud walls and blazed back in the best Gunga Din fashion. A strafing run by Indian Vampire jets failed to dislodge the Pakistanis -indeed, they reported, did not even disturb the vultures circling overhead...
What is unclear is whether the seeming hesitancy is a result of design or poor logistics. It has always been difficult to move large bodies of troops speedily in the subcontinent. On either side of the border, the roads are miserable and usually choked with oxcarts, camel caravans and wandering cows. The railways offer the best transportation, but trains?as at Dhankeal?are sitting ducks for rocket-firing jets...
...boated up the Potomac to Mount Vernon with the Kennedys, flew to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch to write his name in fresh Friendship Walk cement. Vice President Johnson had met Ayub in Pakistan earlier that year and, in a rosy, fraternal glow, saw to it that a camel driver who reached for his outstretched hand got a free junket...
...attack Palestine's undermanned garrisons early in the war, thereby saving the Jewish population from Turkish persecution and paving the way for an eventual Jewish state. Its chances of success, figured one member, were about the same as those of "a chicken scratching at the feet of a camel," while failure might cost the lives of all Palestinian Jews. In any event, as the group well knew, "our people will despise us for what we are doing. Jews have a long hatred against spying. We will be without honor in our own country...