Word: kashmir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indo-Pakistani war-to pursue foreign policies of her own choosing. Last week, before leaving for a visit to India's ally the Soviet Union, Pakistan's President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto indicated that he is willing to drop his country's longstanding claim to Kashmir. It was a particularly eloquent bit of proof that Jawaharlal Nehru's imperious daughter has led her country into...
...fill a vacant Senate seat in 1949. The following year he lost the nomination for a full term after a campaign bitter with racial overtones. For the next 16 years Graham worked as a U.N. mediator in a determined but unsuccessful effort to resolve the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir...
Fistfight. His wanderings took him as far as Kashmir. If he lacked Hemingway's stature, he had gathered a certain amount of tragic experience to draw on. His second wife Claire, whom he had met on Ibiza, died in a car crash in Monterey, Calif., in the late '50s, when she was eight months pregnant. The wife of Novelist Dennis Murphy was also killed in the crash, and Irving, who had often been unfaithful to Claire, had a drunken fistfight with Murphy over who was to blame for the accident...
...writing and wandering. The son of Cartoonist Jay Irving, who drew the comic strip Pottsy, Clifford Irving was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell in 1951. He traveled, took odd jobs -brush salesman in Syracuse, machinist's helper in Detroit-lived on a houseboat in Kashmir and taught creative writing at U.C.L.A...
...first, from October 1947 to Jan. 1, 1949, took place in Kashmir and resulted in the almost equal division of the disputed state. The second was the Rann of Kutch affair on India's southwestern border from April to June 1965. The third, in the fall of 1965, occurred in Kashmir and lasted 22 days...