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...British sentiment that they reflect-intruded into last week's London meeting of leaders from the 28 Commonwealth nations, of which 22 have predominantly nonwhite populations. Offended by articles in the British press that portrayed the behavior of Asian immigrants as uncouth and unclean, Pakistani Foreign Minister Arshad Husain rapped Britain for practicing discrimination. Rising in Britain's defense, Prime Minister Harold Wilson pointed to the "fiercely penal" anti-discrimination laws that his Labor Government has sponsored. Beyond that, Wilson could do little except plead: "Do not hold me responsible for the phenomenon known as Enoch Powell...
Died. Altaf Husain, 68, editor from 1945 to 1965 of Dawn, Pakistan's biggest English-language daily; of a heart attack; in Karachi. A longtime friend of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, Husain was a neutralist in foreign affairs, in recent years had much to do with Pakistan's shift from the West towards stronger ties with Communist China and the Soviet Union...
...India's first Prime Minister, he insisted that religion and politics should be separated in the newly independent country, hoped that India would develop into a secular, Western-style nation rather than a religion-centered Hindu homeland. Fittingly, it was his daughter who engineered the election. Selecting Husain as her candidate, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi argued that other countries would not believe India's claim to ethnic and religious impartiality unless a Moslem could become head of state. She threw her whole prestige behind his election...
...Parliament. Hoping to deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...
...enjoy immunities from federal laws so that they, for example, may practice polygamy while other Indians must limit themselves to one wife at a time. Worst of all in Hindu eyes, Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion as the Prophet recommended, hopes to relax the vexing tensions between the two religious groups. "We must talk less, quarrel less, work hard and ever harder, and hold together," he said after his election. It was a sensible formula...