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...sales in a market once dominated by boy bands and balladeers. Mocca (from Bandung) sold more than 75,000 copies of their last album, while Superman Is Dead, from Bali, reached 65,000 with their last effort. Those numbers are dwarfed by multi-platinum acts such as Peterpan and Dewa, but their success is drawing attention...
...Kashmir. Pakistan would either have to react strongly or abandon its claims. Within 48 hours, Ayub Khan made his military answer. A rumbling column of 70 powerful Patton tanks rolled across the Kashmir border far to the south, where the land is flat. The Indian villages of Chhamb and Dewa were swiftly taken. Backed by a brigade of infantry, and with its flanks protected by patrols of mujahids, the tanks rolled on, driving Indian defenders from village after village...
...began after dawn with a thunderous artillery barrage that sent the villagers of Chhamb and Dewa in the southwestern tip of Kashmir scurrying for shelter. As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
...Contest. Dewa and Chhamb were swiftly captured by the armored column, which rolled forward some eight miles against light resistance and halted by the banks of the shallow Munawar Tawi River. The Indian counterattack came from the sky-28 British-made Vampire jets bombed and strafed the armored force, destroying an estimated ten tanks before Pakistani supersonic F-86 Sabres streaked to the rescue. It was no contest: four of the slower Indian planes were shot down, and the rest scattered...