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Leading the opposition was a 54-year-old lawyer and fiery Moslem Leaguer who refused to accept any solution to Kashmir other than a plebiscite, which would probably give the province to Pakistan. "We have nothing against Communism," he said, "but we cannot reconcile ourselves to Hindu domination." Sternly he warned
...Indian officials. Their mission was twofold: to organize military aid to beleaguered India, and to seek an end to India's long festering dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. The controversy dates back to independence in 1947, when the Hindu ruler of Kashmir opted to join India instead of Moslem Pakistan, despite the fact that 77% of the province is Moslem. Bloody violence erupted; the United Nations proposed a plebiscite as a means of settling the problem; India refused. Since 1949, a tenuous peace has been kept along Kashmir's U.N.-supervised cease-fire line, which gives India possession...
...seemed a step forward. But when Iran's tradition-bound Moslem mullahs got wind of the plan, they flatly rejected it as "not in keeping with Islamic law." Already under intense pressure from the mullahs, who fear the government's land-reform program will affect their vast lands, Premier Assadollah Alam finally yielded. Last week Alam suspended the decree, and Iran's unveiled women remained unfranchised as well...
Swallowed byChristianity? "It is not enough for the applicant to say he feels Jewish." argued State Attorney Zvi Bar-Niv. "Jewishness is not a club based on feeling." Citing authorities from the Talmud to St. Augustine, Bar-Niv insisted that "an Israeli may be Christian, Moslem or atheist. But 'Jew' connotes not belonging to any other religion. The attribute of a Jew is a common culture, and religion is the basis of that culture whether you observe it or not." Angry editorials in the Orthodox press were heavy with the ancient Jewish fear of being swallowed...
...Along with most of the other 450 wealthy families, the landlords of Fars have fought the land distribution law by helping to foment street riots in Teheran, falsifying ownership records with the connivance of provincial officials, forging ballots in local elections. Recently, the landlords won powerful allies by enlisting Moslem mullahs who are using their pulpits to frighten illiterate, landless peasants out of demanding their legal rights...