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...consume conspicuously rather than invest their windfall profits. (Luxury housing accounts for about 10 per cent of measured private investment.) The growth of this economic oligarchy was complemented by the concurrent growth of a powerful military dictatorship, centralized in West Pakistan and supplied with American arms. After the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, the economic-military elite grew increasingly arrogant and unresponsive to the popular will...
...negotiation with the North can result in rapid or early demobilization of this force. The best planning assumption seems to be military stalemate and withering away of the war, a process that can last for a decade or more (unless an international body undertakes to keep the peace in Indo-China by maintaining a military presence there...
...other correspondents contributing to the cover story are also veteran observers of Asian fighting. James Shepherd, an Indian national, joined TIME'S New Delhi bureau in 1958. His assignments have included India's border clashes with China and the Indo-Pakistani war waged over Kashmir. Recently Shepherd toured the refugee camps that line the Indo-East Pakistani border. David Greenway, whose most recent beat was the United Nations, formerly served in the Saigon and Bangkok bureaus. Last week he visited the insurgent forces. "The countryside," he says, "looks quite like Viet Nam, and with all the airpower, armor...
...ominous is the growing confrontation along the porous 1,300-mile border, where many of the Pakistani army's 70,000 troops are trying to seal off raids by rebels based in India. With Indian jawans facing them on the other side, a stray shot could start a new Indo-Pakistani war?and one on a much more devastating scale than their 17-day clash over Kashmir...
...slight, dark Bengalis are more closely related to the Dravidian people they subjugated. The Westerners, who eat wheat and meat, speak Urdu, which is written in Arabic but is a synthesis of Persian and Hindi. The Easterners eat rice and fish, and speak Bengali, a singsong language of Indo-Aryan origin...