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...curious mountain war sputtered on. At Yusmarg, a tiny Himalayan village near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, Indian police fought off a night attack by "hundreds" of Pakistani infiltrators armed with mortars, light machine guns and Sten guns. On the winding highway between Srinagar and Leh, a vital link to Indian forces manning the Communist Chinese border in Ladakh, a 14-man police detail guarding a wooden bridge clashed with night raiders...
...riots erupted from Bangalore to Bombay. The shortages of grain called into question Nehru's economic policies, which stressed industry and paid little attention to the more basic problem of agriculture. And looming in the background was the seemingly insoluble deadlock with Pakistan, typified not only by the Kashmir question but also by the threat to India's borders in the desolate Rann of Kutch...
...First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev before he and Kosygin entrained for Poland. The talk was officially described as "friendly and frank"-and "frank" in Communist terms means disagreement. One purpose of the trip was Ayub Khan's hope to budge the Soviets from supporting India's claim to Kashmir, which is disputed by Pakistan. Still, Ayub Khan said he appreciated the "open-mindedness" of the Soviet leaders. He invited his hosts to visit him in Karachi, but Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan said he had already been there and someone else should go. At week's end there were...
Elliot L. Richardson '41, Massachusetts lieutenant governor, will speak Normally at 7 p.m. tonight in the Cabot Hall Living Room, and Frank P. Graham United Nations mediator for Kashmir, will examine "The U.N. and the Atomic Age" at 8:30 p.m. in the Winthrop House Dining Hall...
...knowledge that each side holds hostages from the other; each regards the other as a more immediate menace than Red China. In riots last year 4,000 from both groups were killed after a holy hair from the prophet Mohammed's head was stolen from a Kashmir mosque. The two nations' conflicting claims to Kashmir have created a diplomatic impasse that may outlast the East-West stalemate on Berlin...