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Even in less troubled times, Pakistanis were prone to observe that the only bonds between the diverse and distant wings of their Moslem nation were the Islamic faith and Pakistan International Airlines. Sharing neither borders nor cultures, separated by 1,100 miles of Indian territory (see map), Pakistan is an improbable wedding of the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The tall, light-skinned Punjabis, Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis of West Pakistan are descendants of the Aryans who swept into the subcontinent in the second millennium B.C. East Pakistan's slight, dark Bengalis are more closely related to the Dravidian people...
...based their hopes of blocking the merger on a clause in their constitution that demands approval of three-fourths of the church's 73 presbyteries. But at the denomination's convention last month, a bare majority of Southern liberals pushed through a plan to "restructure" the church map that could gerrymander the conservative threat out of existence. A conservative magazine, the Presbyterian Journal, charged angrily that "everything important went the way of the world, the flesh and the devil." But last week the denomination's chief executive officer, Stated Clerk James Millard Jr., reminded Southern Presbyterians that...
...could be done and who kept saying "Things are getting better." Then, gray and pinched in 1967, trying to explain why he had become the first to turn publicly against the war. There was his tall, taut Assistant Secretary, John McNaughton, now dead, sweeping confident eyes across the map of the world and talking fast, very fast. Speaking ever so precisely of the potential of yet another of Saigon's revolving governments, the coatless Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy stretched out on his leather couch. Brooding over all loomed the peaked profile of Lyndon Johnson, secretive, holding his options...
...borders of Viet Nam than ever before. From the Sino-Laotian frontier in the north to the tiny crossroads town of Snuol in the south, Hanoi's troops are masters of an area that measures 840 miles long and 250 miles wide at its broadest point (see map...
They will also advise President-designate Bok on policies and strategies involving Harvard's position in such matters, and will help map out the direction the University will pursue within the community...