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With the holiday season here, Cambridge shops are full of ideas for Christmas gift-giving. Adele Bragar thinks her Scotch mohair scarf, in either a solid color or plaid, makes an exciting present. She is featuring Siamese silk and Kashmiri silk scarves, too, as well as imported jewelry from Mexico, India, and Spain with many, many items under $5. You can pick up your fake Persian lamb hat which is being seen all over this season for only $4 at Adele Bragar...
Taskmaster for the border war is Lieut. General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, a Kashmiri Brahman distantly related to Prime Minister Nehru. When the Chinese Reds overwhelmed the Indian border posts last month, General Kaul was absent-ill with pneumonia, he had been evacuated, almost by force, to New Delhi. Now fully recovered and back at his headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army...
...Ayub flew back to Karachi last week,Nehru exploded. "I have never seen such political behavior during my 40 or 50 years of public life," shouted Nehru to a crowd of 200,000 in the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar. Ayub, he said heatedly, "is basically a war-minded soldier. While the United States thought it was providing arms to Pakistan to combat Communism, it is very well known all over the world that Pakistan has military aims against peaceful countries...
...Srinagar palace. Sir Hari promptly fled to Jammu, taking with him an 85-vehicle convoy loaded with his possessions, including polo ponies, and necklaces from the temple gods. He also took along most of his own army, while unabashedly appealing to Nehru to come to the aid of the Kashmiri people. In return he offered to sign an instrument of accession by which Jammu and Kashmir became part of India. Nehru, who nourishes a sentimental attachment for Kashmir because his forbears come from there, called it a deal, sent in the Indian army, which fought the invaders for 15 months...
...Kashmir issue, Mr. Beecher, who would not have President Mohammed Ayub Khan "intransigent," himself appears to support the intransigence of those who have successfully resisted the various efforts made by the United Nations to hold a free and impartial plebiscite in order to ascertain the wishes of the Kashmiri people whether they would like to join Pakistan or India. The simple expedient of disposing of the problem by pushing it into the background is hardly a "solution." The severe strain imposed on Pakistan's resources by the problem of absorbing no less than eight million refugees within a relatively short...