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...well be that no long-term agreement for U.S. wheat will be forthcoming until India complies with the United Nations order to pull back its troops from the truce line along the Pakistan border and show some sign of interest in a settlement of the Kashmir question...
...India-Pakistan. these two nations of the Asian subcontinent are "likely bets" for economic growth except "beastly old Kashmir keeps cropping up." Real progress could be made when that dispute is settled...
After covering World War II in the South Pacific, Dickey showed up just about everywhere men were shooting at each other: Korea, Hungary, Kashmir, Cuba, Algeria, the Dominican Republic. She traced her interest in battle to her quiet childhood in Milwaukee, where, as she recalled in her autobiography, What's a Woman Doing Here?, she was taught "that violence in any form is unthinkable. It was so unthinkable that it became as attractive a mystery to me as sex seemed to be to other teen-agers...
Last week's furor kept Kashmir in the headlines, which is just where the Pakistanis want it. Their worst fear is that the crisis will fade before the U.N. does something about it. Meanwhile, dug-in Pakistani and Indian troops face each other along the 1,500-mile truce line from Rajasthan in the south to Kashmir in the north. India has charged Pakistan with 585 violations in 34 days. Pakistan has countered with accusations of 450 incidents by India. In his first visit to the front, India's Shastri last week exhorted his soldiers "to be alert...
There was more than verbal violence in Kashmir itself. Many-perhaps a majority-of the 3.5 million inhabitants of Indian-held Kashmir are strongly inclined toward union with Pakistan and are letting the Indian-controlled government know it. The government has struck back sternly, suspending civil rights, closing schools and universities, centers of the protests, and jailing pro-Pakistan politicians. Units of the 30,000-man India-controlled police force have waded into demonstrators and beaten scores to the ground with their lathis (long, steel-tipped staves). Fearing a full-scale revolt, government officials protect their homes with sandbags...