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Spurring his warlike Moslems to battle against the hated Hindus in Kashmir last fall was a relatively simple task for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. Calming them down has turned out to be a good deal harder. After all, Ayub's controlled press had claimed one magnificent victory after another in Kashmir. When Ayub and India's late Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri agreed in Tashkent last month to observe the original border and withdraw their troops from it, Pakistan's vitriolic Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto nearly resigned in disgust, and students demonstrated...
Indonesia, 90% Moslem, adjourns office work early on Friday and takes all day Sunday off. Many Moslems and Hindus in Malaysia are now accustomed to paying visits to mosques and temples on Sunday-not because it has any religious significance to them but simply because urban businesses are closed. The British heritage of Sunday off prevails in India and Pakistan. Japan, which until 1876 used the Chinese lunar calendar with no uniformity of holidays, shifted that year to the seven-day week with Sundays off. Buddhists and Shintoists readily accepted the change, although many businesses ignored it until...
...gainer in the war. Shastri had united the nation as never before. Said one Western ambassador last week: "It used to be you could feed the word 'India' into the machine and it would spit out 'Maharajahs, snakes, too many babies, too many cows, spindly-legged Hindus.' Now it's apparent to everybody that India is going to emerge as an Asian power in its own right...
Destroyed Myth. The jubilant Indian press last week printed the army's claim to have already destroyed 284 U.S.-built Patton tanks, which had never before been battle-tested. The progress of the war, crowed the Indian Express, "destroys much of the myth of the meek and mild Hindus as it has the legend of the superiority of the American-built and American-supplied Patton tanks and Sabre jets...
...credit of both governments, each was doing what it could to damp down the possibility of religious massacres. Most of Pakistan's Hindus are in the East zone, so far little affected by the war. Pledges of loyalty to India came from many communities among the nation's 47 million Moslem subjects. Two Moslems sit in Shastri's Cabinet, and there are many scattered through the government and the army. Shastri has urged "internal harmony" upon his countrymen...