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...strength of the Vietnamese rail road lies with its plucky engineers, Oriental Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon...
Steaming Symbol. Since 1961, the U.S. has put $25 million into the railroad, including 48 General Electric diesel engines and 200 new boxcars. For all that, the line is in roughly the same shape it was at the end of the Indo-China war in 1954. Last month
...Moscow and a major victory for Shastri. Without retreating on Kashmir, he negotiated an agreement with Ayub that called for 1) pulling back Indian and Pakistan armies to their prewar borders, 2) re-establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, and 3) holding more high-level meetings to discuss Indo-Pakistan misunderstandings. Shastri was ecstatic. "We shall fight as hard for peace," he vowed, "as we fought...
...Sinkiang into Pakistan is carrying Red Chinese small arms to outfit three new Pakistani divisions. "There is an almost poisonous atmosphere between the two countries," said a top Shastri aide last week. "To expect any dramatic results [in Tashkent] seems to be rather impractical." Since the heart of the Indo-Pakistani dispute remains Kashmir, a problem which neither the U.N. nor the big powers have been able to arbitrate successfully for 18 years, that pessimism is well warranted. Still, the days of talk in Tashkent may allow both sides' tempers to cool...
...Ayub and Shastri meet in Tashkent this week under the sponsoring eye of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, that old Uzbek saying sounds overoptimistic. Kosygin invited the pair to Tashkent during the height of last summer's Indo-Pakistani border war. Since then, an uneasy, U.N.-imposed "ceasefire" has been torn almost daily by vicious, small-scale clashes, and both sides have counted more than 3,596 "violations...