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...meantime, however, several hard-lining West Pakistani generals got wind of the proposal and informed Yahya that they were opposed to any sort of negotiations with Mujib. They argued that Pakistan's unity depended upon maintaining the current policy?in effect to outlast the guerrillas. The generals, moreover, also tried to convince Yahya that Mujib should be executed after his treason trial is completed. Yahya has apparently not yet made up his mind about the Bengali leader, but observers have grown markedly more pessimistic about his fate. "Mujib may well never get back to Bengal alive," says one Western diplomat...
Lost Momentum. The big showdown occurred last week when the Dodgers met the Giants for the last time this season in a two-game series at Candlestick Park. In the first game, the slap-hitting Dodgers uncharacteristically clouted three home runs to outlast the Giants 5-4. In the process a disputed call and a near free-for-all over an exchange of beanballs resulted in two players from each team being thrown out of the game. Next night, the Giants rebounded long enough to take a 5-3 lead into the ninth inning. Then some more strange things...
...fact is, however, that Harvard kept pace with Columbia through the first half. At halftime the score was 7-7, and the feeling was that Harvard would simply outlast the Lions in the second half. The converse proved to be true...
...further indicator that the regime may outlast pessimists' predictions is the army, which has grown from 35,000 to 140,000 men. It is still a ragtag force, ill equipped with a bewildering array of Communist and American weapons. But, as it demonstrated in its recent relief of Kompong Thom and its stand at Taing Kauk, the army is capable of slugging it out with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong...
...Indian leaders who, with any confidence of national support from their people, can speak on precisely what should be done. Traditionalists merely tend to look at the mountains that have sheltered their tribes for centuries and at the writings of their ancestral prophets, and they say patiently: "We'll outlast you whites." There are others who seek accommodation of white and Indian cultures. Says Ronnie Lupe, tribal chairman of the White Mountain Apaches: "We know what the white man offers us. There are certain comforts in your culture?good homes, good cars, good jobs?but there is a certain...