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Earnest Apology. The well-coordinated mobs that stormed the Karachi embassy and other official U.S. installations in Lahore and Dacca in protest at the halt in American arms shipments last month clearly had government approval-though apparently not Ayub...
Parallel to all this has been a steady drumfire of anti-Americanism in the government-controlled papers. Karachi's daily Dawn suggested that Ambassador McConaughy had advance knowledge of an Indian, plan "to invade Pakistan" since "the ambassador's wife and son left Pakistan two days before the attack." In fact, McConaughy has no son, and his wife was in Karachi when the fighting began. A reporter's phone call could have quickly ascertained what really happened: the McConaughys' daughter had left town-to attend school in Europe...
...Indonesia and other Moslem nations. The U.S. understandably received no public praise from Ayub for its role in the ceasefire, though Ayub quickly called President Johnson by phone to advise L.B.J. of Pakistan's acceptance of the ceasefire. Nothing was said of the anti-American demonstrations in Karachi and Lahore the day before the ceasefire, in which mobs smashed U.S. libraries and embassy windows...
...MIRZA Karachi, Pakistan
...Negotiations were begun to define the 200-mile border with Tibet; Peking proved generous, handing over to Pakistan about 750 sq. mi. of disputed territory. As the Pakistanis turned willing, the Chinese turned eager. Trade expanded; an agreement was reached for Pakistan International Airlines to make biweekly flights between Karachi and Canton; China advanced a $60 million credit to Pakistan...