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...clear. Sukarno started an anti-American drive last summer as part of the campaign against Malaysia. Then the P.K.I, got into the act. Soon it had taken over. The P.K.I, has forced Sukarno to ban pro-Sukarno but anti-Communist newspapers, is now pressuring him to ban a nationalist Moslem student group. So obstreperous have the Communists become that for the first time there are signs of opposition; in East Java, 300 have died in clashes between Communists and Moslems...
...attracted by Miss Fatima Jinnah in the presidential election Ayub won in January. But he clearly was not overly worried about control of the country, for his government had received additional confirmation in the latest round of nationwide voting. In legislative elections last week, Ayub's Pakistan Moslem League Party increased its majority from less than two-thirds to 77% of the 150 general seats in the National Assembly, a margin big enough to give Ayub power to change the constitution at will. The victory gave Ayub an undisputably firm base at home from which to continue his successful...
...sure enough, the latest mob of 500 Moslem students that roared up to U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones's residence last week in government trucks had not a brick in hand. Instead, the mobsters simply pushed through the gates into the compound and trampled the garden, then roamed through the official residence itself...
...sailor whose dreams of glory are lost at sea. Joseph Conrad's intricate turn-of-the-century novel expands a solitary act of cowardice into a moot question about every man's moral identity. As chief mate of the Patna, a leaky old steamer with some 800 Moslem pilgrims aboard, Jim joins his panicky crew in abandoning ship at the threat of a gale, only to meet disgrace when the doomed tub rides it out unattended. Thereafter Conrad's hero drags the ghost of his honor through many perils to ultimate redemption in death...
Married. Princess Fadia, 21, youngest daughter of Egypt's ex-king Farouk and his first wife Farida; and Pierre Orloff, 26, Swiss geologist, well-born son of an exiled White Russian; in a civil ceremony at which Farouk was noticeably absent (he wanted Fadia to marry a Moslem, not a Russian Orthodox); in London...