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...tilting in favor of India-and remains unconvinced by Russia's claim that India's arsenal is only for use against Red Chinese invaders. Furthermore, Pakistan wants the Soviets to lift their U.N. Security Council veto on discussion of Kashmir, the disputed Indian-held state of largely Moslem complexion. Ayub wants to settle its status by plebiscite, demands at least that the subject of Kashmir head any new Indo-Pakistani negotiations...
Looking as nonmilitary as he could in blue business suit and Moslem petji cap, the new President of Indonesia stared steadily down at his prepared text. "We will firmly uphold the principles of democracy," he told 828 mem bers of the Provisional People's Consultative Congress. "We are determined to carry out the wishes of the people." General Suharto, 46, had just been elected to a five-year term as President - but the wishes of the people had little to do with it. Despite his promises of popular rule, Suharto last week assumed almost total power over Indonesia...
Because of tight patrols by police and British tommies, whose numbers were reinforced for the occasion, major violence was averted among rival Creole, Hindu and Moslem groups, who nonetheless continued sniping at one another. Violence or no, Mauritius faces hard times. Britain's sugar subsidy runs out in 1970. By then, Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam of the Hindu-backed Independence Party hopes to diversify the economy and lure new foreign investment. To avert violence, Britain will also help train and equip Mauritius' police and armed forces. As added protection, a company of the King's Shropshire...
...even turn against him. The left wing of his party is trying to turn the demonstrations into "the starting point for organized political action by the masses." No less restive is the political right, which Nasser accused of taking part in the riots by manipulating the long-banned Moslem brotherhoods...
...Collection of Wishes. Formed by the 1960 union of British and Italian Somaliland, Somalia is populated by blacks of the Moslem faith who are largely illiterate nomads. While some Somalis in the north speak English, many southerners rattle off Italian with ease-and are only slightly less adept at the appropriate hand gestures. Italian influence also remains in the crumbling old arches and seaside villas, the pasta and Italian wines served in restaurants and the 1934 Fiat trucks that disgorge angry clouds of billowy, greasy smoke in the streets of the capital of Mogadishu...