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...recently completed a two-year assignment in the area and only last week opened a new TIME bureau in Bangkok, flew into Rawalpindi and on to the front. Rome Correspondent William Rademaekers, who had been covering the comparatively quiet political crisis in Greece, flew out of Athens for Karachi and went right to work when he found United Nations Secretary-General U Thant on the same plane...
...Civil servants worked round the clock, and on the desks of key officials lay a blue volume of contingency papers labeled "War Book." Auto headlights were dimmed with smears of mud and cow dung, and trucks were camouflaged with leafy branches. For three successive nights, Indian bombers struck at Karachi's harbor installations, and the wail of air-raid sirens blended with the sobbing call to prayer of muezzins atop minarets. A bitter Pakistani official said, "Let's fight it out and get it over with. Either we become slaves of India, or India accepts us as an independent state...
SARWAT ALI NUSRAT ALI AZMAT ALI Karachi, Pakistan...
Embarrassed Bankers. So climaxed the latest chapter in the continuing, incredible soybean scandal-the most prodigious swindle in modern times, reaching out from the grimy waterfront of Bayonne, N.J., and involving big commodities dealers in Buenos Aires, recipients of U.S. foreign aid in Karachi, and a numbered bank account in Zurich. Sixteen companies have been bankrupted. Eleven firms controlled by De Angelis have gone under, as have two respected Wall Street brokerage houses and one subsidiary of American Express Co. Embarrassed bankers from London to San Francisco have been taken for many millions. So have De Angelis' customers, notably...
...disasters hit Pakistan last week, one as modern as the jet age, one as ancient as the wind on the face of the waters. Approaching Cairo, a Pakistani International Airlines Boeing 720B, inaugurating a new Karachi-Cairo-London run, developed engine trouble and crashed. All but six of its 130 passengers and crew were killed, including 21 Pakistani newsmen. "It was the will of God," said Gala Alkarini, one survivor, as seven baboons that had been in the luggage compartment capered, unharmed, amid the smoking ruins...