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...come were many, many things: a moonlight stroll through the parks of the Taj Mahal, lunch at the lovely Lake Palace in Udaipur, a visit to the burning ghats of Benares. Then, this week, on to Pakistan, supper with the Wali of Swat, a drive up to the fabled Khyber Pass...
...journey began in the hot desert country around Hyderabad. Last week it ended, 1,500 miles distant in the cold, bleak hills near the Khyber Pass. Traveling in a sleek, air-conditioned train named Pak Jamhuriat (Pakistan Democracy), Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, barnstormed the land, urging citizens to go to the polls in support of his new conception called "basic democracies...
...South. U.S. aid ($145 million) includes construction of some 500 miles of roads from Kabul south and east to the Pakistan border; although it was not intended that way, the roads will provide the Russians with a perfect network of all-weather highways running from the Oxus to the Khyber Pass, the traditional invasion route into India from the north. U.S. technicians are also working on a huge international airport at Kandahar and have raised dams, like those in the Helmand Valley, to control Afghanistan's seasonal rivers. But, although it is carefully geared to the nation...
...military government, one incentive in moving is to get away from the business lobbies and commercial interests that tempted the old regimes, and from the street mobs that they were able to hire for slogan-shouting marches on the legislature. The new inland capital, 100 miles east of the Khyber Pass, will also be a scant 35 miles from Rawalpindi-headquarters of the Pakistan army...
...Khyber Pass tribal leaders draped garlands around Macmillan's neck, gave him the traditional Pathan tribesman's greeting: "Welcome; come in peace." In Ceylon, which has been busily ejecting Britain from its old military bases, even Macmillan was amazed at the warmth of his welcome from crowds that lined the streets as he passed. Between speeches in Australia, the visitor shed his necktie and distributed the steaks in person at a Queensland sheep-station barbecue. In Melbourne he went out of his way to shake hands with policemen, housewives, schoolchildren and members of his honor guard. "A triumph...