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...just tore down the only church in the nation. This month McClung was in Katmandu, Nepal, where conversion to Christianity is a crime, to check on a similar Jesus house that a colleague started last year. McClung also has a small house in Pakistan at the foot of the Khyber Pass, and last week he acquired another in New Delhi...
Daoud, during his tenure as Prime Minister, between 1953 and 1963, cleverly exploited Afghanistan's strategic location (with access to the Khyber Pass and common borders with Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia) to get the U.S. and the Soviet Union to compete with each other in giving aid. "I feel happiest when I can light my American cigarette with a Russian match," he once joked. But Moscow's nearly $1.5 billion in military and economic aid over the past 20 years far outdistanced Washington's $500 million, and inevitably the flame of the match grew a little...
When Pakistan became independent in 1947, Britain bequeathed it a parliamentary system. Not until last week, however, did Pakistan's rulers get around to adopting a feature normally associated with such a system: nationwide general elections. From the rugged Khyber Pass at Afghanistan's doorstep to the Chittagong Hills near the jungles of Burma, some 40 million voters turned out at polling places. Despite their newness to the process, they seemed to know exactly what they wanted. Picking their way through the conflicting claims of 20-odd parties, they gave an overwhelming endorsement to only two of them...
Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). King of the Khyber Rifles, with Tyrone Power. Color...
...really, as it turns out. The Khyber Pass becomes old West Injun country, British regimentals become U.S. cavalrymen, and Gunga Din's tame elephant becomes Sammy Davis' big white mule. But Sinatra is no Grant, Dean Martin no McLaglen, and Peter Lawford, a man who looks undressed when not surrounded by a drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load...