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...passport deadline approached last week, a panic-stricken exodus began. About 6,000 Moslems in India fled eastward into East Pakistan. Out of East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside...
...region was well worth a look: the rugged, isolated mountain country spanning the Russian-Turkish border and stretching eastward to the Caspian Sea may be the strategic key to the whole troubled Middle East. This land (see map) is Kurdistan. It is split up among five sovereign nations (Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq), but in the minds of the 4,000,000 fierce Kurdish tribesmen who live there, it is one country. It lies like a great, clumsy sickle over the Middle East, the handle anchored in the mountains near the Persian Gulf, the top of the blade resting...
Prompt Delivery. The drought parched the South from the brown grazing lands of Texas eastward through Dixie's corn, tobacco and (less seriously) cotton. It seared the Southeast's new livestock pasturage. It left scattered scars in the Midwest, and on wide areas of New England...
...Unlike Korea's 38th parallel, which ran approximately eastwest, the Potsdam line dividing Germany snakes unevenly from north to south roughly along the line of the eleventh meridian east of Greenwich, until it reaches Bavaria, where West German territory bulges eastward to the Czech border...
...Barrier. All up & down the long border separating East & West in Germany, Communist Volkspolizei were busy clearing out an "isolation belt" three miles wide. Farmers and their families were ordered from their homes and moved eastward, bag & baggage. In the Harz Mountain village of Hötensleben, some 2,000 inhabitants were ordered to pack up and get out within four hours. A farmer near Hünfeld, ordered to cut down his orchard, burn his house and move east, loaded his wife & children on a farm wagon, tied his cows on behind and fled to the West. The police...