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...from the paddies and cluttered villages of East Pakistan (pop: 42 million), came a stunning vote of no confidence in young (45), pro-American Prime Minister Mohammed Ali and his Moslem League government. In elections for the Legislative Assembly of East Pakistan, which is divided from West Pakistan and Karachi by 1,000 miles of India, the local Moslem Leaguers were swept out of power. The league won only some 3% of the available constituencies. The league's principal opposition, a "United Front" of Moslem splinter parties and assorted left-wingers, won about...
United Front Leader Husain Shaheed Suhrawardy caught the first plane to Karachi, where he led a gay, firecracker-popping motorcade around the capital. As the crowds passed Mohammed Ali's residence, they chanted, "Resign, resign...
...Laurent was in London for lunch and a short talk with Prime Minister Churchill. This week he was scheduled to go on to Paris and Bonn, visit Canadian army and air force bases, then continue the six week, 30,000-mile tour that will take him to Rome, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul and Tokyo...
...soon as the final contracts are signed, Bell and the other seven men will move with their families to Karachi, capital of Pakistan...
There was little time for formal prayer, however, in the cab of the Mail's locomotive as it rounded a bend 75 miles from Karachi at 60 m.p.h. Sprawled athwart the rails dead ahead were two tank cars, filled with gasoline, from a freight which had run off the track ten minutes earlier. Before the Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into...