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...Although I am one of the young people who made the "exodus," I feel that the citizens of Hazleton should be congratulated for their efforts. Your article is a fine tribute to the people of my home town. I am proud of them...
...often when a good book or play becomes a movie, the script writers fail to see that they have good things in front of their noses; passionate (and pointless) adaptation turned such solid novels as Exodus and Advise and Consent into mediocre cinema. Fortunately, the men who took Gore Vidal's recent hit play The Best Man and made it into a movie had the sense to leave well enough alone. As a result, they have put together a terrific film...
...Exodus? President Johnson requested a congressional appropriation of $50 million in emergency funds. But most Alaskans were convinced that the Congress will have to pass special legislation to make as much as $500 million available, preferably in outright grants rather than long-term loans. Governor Egan and other state officials hoped at the same time to kick off a $50 million reconstruction bond issue. But in any event, Alaskans agreed that they had better get the money soon or suffer a depression and a mass exodus of the populace. Said Anchorage Times Publisher Robert Atwood: "Uncle...
...both sides, Indian and Pakistani exiles are pawns in a vast, vengeful diaspora unequaled since the migrations that followed the 1947 partitioning of the subcontinent between Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan. The two-way exodus was restarted this year by a savage, three-month wave of Hindu-Moslem rioting, mostly in eastern India and East Pakistan; the conflict has already taken untold hundreds of lives in two countries. India claims that some 200,000 Hindus have been forced to flee Pakistan. Pakistan claims that some 200,000 Moslems have been forced to flee India. For all their indignation, neither side...
...persecution. Alike, they say that border police systematically relieve them of whatever money and jewels they have left. On both sides, fugitives protest that the only safe way across the frontier is by greasing the palms of unscrupulous fixers. Yet their governments piously gloss over the fact that the exodus is in both directions. India talks only of Hindus fleeing Pakistani atrocities, Pakistan of Moslems fleeing Indian hordes...