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Meanwhile, up the Bay of Bengal into East Pakistan raged one of the huge cyclones that commonly rise at the start of the monsoon. Winds howling up to 100 m.p.h. washed 13-ft. tidal waves over the narrow channels of the Ganges delta, flooding the alluvial fields, smashing and flattening the green stalks of the vital jute crop, ripping apart banana, betel nut and coconut palm plantations, uprooting giant mango orchards and inundating thousands of acres of rice. In East Pakistan's capital of Dacca, 125 miles from the sea, millions spent four terrified hours in the dead...
Pakistan calls the 8,000-sq.-mi. area an inland sea (and indeed during the monsoon season most of it is blanketed with four feet of water from the Arabian Sea), hence feels the boundary should be drawn halfway through the Rann. Shastri last week invoked etymology to prove that the Rann is not a sea but a swamp, deriving as it does from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning "salty marsh." Therefore, the Indian Prime Minister argued, the boundary must remain as drawn by the British way back...
Fortunately for all concerned, the monsoon begins in three weeks. Then the whole area will be under water-driving Indians, Pakistanis and wild asses alike to higher, safer ground...
...remain on the ground, and I will not know my mistakes and rectify them." Flowing Night Soil. During his three months in office, punctuated by a heart attack, diminutive Shastri has grappled vainly with a serious food crisis. And now huge floods, unusual even for India's monsoon season, are surging over seven states, from Assam in the east to the Punjab in the west. More than 2,400,000 acres of standing crops have been damaged, and thousands of Indi ans are in flight from their drowned villages. For the first time in recent memory, flood waters have...
...Saigon moved on the capital in an armada of three-wheeled Lambrettas, wielding clubs, machetes and pistols. At the outskirts, the hymn-singing men, women and children in conical straw hats picked up prepared banners proclaiming "Down with Neutralism." One group surrounded a Buddhist technical school, clashed savagely in monsoon rains with Buddhist boys in blue school uniforms. The parading Catholics reconverged on the military GHQ, shouted for Khanh to remain in power...