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...suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections, and an independent judiciary...
Pakistan's quarrels with India have been so virulent that outsiders have had to intervene-the U.N. to separate the armies in Kashmir, the International Bank to arbitrate rights to the Indus River waters. This summer, trouble flared along East Pakistan's ill-marked borders, and once again Pakistan's Moslem Leaguers whooped it up for holy war. Customarily, any politician who talks on India in conciliatory tones risks political suicide. But Feroz Khan Noon, the tall, Oxford-educated aristocrat who became Pakistan's seventh Prime Minister last winter, decided that such irresponsible fire-breathing...
...office pull. Next week the Moiseyev will give Americans their first close look at a major Soviet dance company. For a color preview of what Russian dance looks like when it is not poised on pointe, see Music, Soviet Pop Ballet. r RAGGED down by the auto indus-'-' try's slump, Detroit is the most recession-battered big city in the U.S. What worries thoughtful Detroiters even more than the current acute chill is a chronic malaise that afflicted the city even before the nationwide recession started, and will still be nagging it after the recession...
...travelogical absurdity. As far as the scenery goes, Search is able to find plenty of it in the Himalayas. Airborne, the camera looks down like Shiva on the glittering tremendum of eternal snows; waterborne, it hurls the watcher through a thrilling passage of some rapids on the Indus River. But when the travel stops and the story begins, the show turns out to be a quasi-Oriental epic with a superman for a hero. The superman: radio's Lowell Thomas, who just happens to be one of the founders of Cinerama Productions Corp...
...immense outpouring of art which began more than 5,000 years ago in the fertile Indus Valley has flooded over to enrich the lives of millions in India, Central Asia, China, Java and Cambodia. But because the main stream of Indian art flowed away from the sources that were to nourish Western art, Indian sculpture has remained something strange and remote to Western sensibilities...