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...year after its eastern half broke away to become Bangladesh, Pakistan is again torn by disunity. Reminiscent of events that preceded civil war in East Pakistan two years ago, President Zulfikar AH Bhutto (see box page 27) has 1) dismissed the governors of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province, both popular leaders of the opposition National Awami Party, 2) sent troops into Baluchistan to put down tribesmen sympathetic to the ousted governor, and 3) touched off a storm of disapproval with a draft constitution that would in effect continue his own rule for another 15 years. To make matters...
Bhutto's actions threatened to destroy a fragile peace worked out last year with the opposition National Awami Party, which is the dominant political force in Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province. Baluchi and Pathan tribesmen in the two provinces have long been agitating for greater autonomy and a larger share of the economic pie. Although the National Awami Party has never advocated independence from Pakistan, various other political groups in the provinces do. Recently a group called "Azad [Free] Baluchistan" has sought to unite Pakistani Baluchis with fellow tribesmen in Iran to form a new nation. Though...
Other parts of the city promise to become more accessible with the construction of new highways through the city: the Inner Belt and the extension of Route 2 from the north-west. The extension of the MBTA line to North Cambridge will do the same. Moreover, Cambridge's job market is expanding and will continue to do so. According to Planning Board figures, there were 87,000 City-based jobs in 1966, 13,000 more than in 1950. With NASA and M.I.T. expected to bring more research-oriented and consulting firms to the City, and with the universities' payroll growing...
Brasilia, he said, fulfills this need by opening up trade routes to the North-west; furthermore, "numerous population centers are already springing up along the highways." Besides, the idea of such a city has so long been debated that Kubitschek concluded building it was a "constitutional mandate...
...Britain's empire ties. The Commonwealth had seen an unexpectedly relaxed and genial Macmillan. Fresh from a rousing reception in India, he landed at Karachi in Pakistan (in a Britannia turboprop airliner nicknamed "The Flying No. 10") to be greeted by cheering thousands, detoured 700 miles north to the North-West Frontier mountains never before visited by a British Prime Minister...