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...years, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan has ruled his country with the firm hand of a field marshal, which he is. Under his version of "basic democracy," Ayub's rule is sustained by indirect elections through a sympathetic electoral college of 120,000 educated Pakistanis. He, in turn, provides Pakistan with political stability and a steadily improving economy. But last week Pakistan's facade of political calm cracked. A would-be assassin took two wild potshots at Ayub. Student riots broke out in half a dozen cities...
...declared in a speech on the presidency-one of his best-on Sept. 19: "The days of a passive presidency belong to a simpler past. The next President must take an activist view of his office. He must articulate the nation's values, define its goals and marshal its will...
...than in 1964. Several thousand aroused students attended a meeting to organize a protest movement. Opposed to any strong central authority, even in their own cause, they split into small groups, and their organizational meetings degenerated into bickering over goals and tactics. The rebels might have been able to marshal more support if they had faced an unreceptive administration. But Heyns readily agreed to meet with the protesters and expressed his concern about the regents' anti-Cleaver decision-although he also warned that he would not tolerate any campus disorder...
Cross-country Team Captain Douglas Hardin of Winthrop House has been elected First Marshal of the Class of 1969. Second is Jimmy Jones, Leverett; third, W. Scott Robertson, Dunster; and fourth, William R. Jewett, Eliot...
...Marshal Josip Broz Tito...