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Three days later, again in Rawalpindi, police battled 7,000 demonstrators, who had taken to stoning cars. The government called in troops. In Peshawar,* students, shouting antigovernment slogans, broke into the U.S. Information Service offices and ransacked them, then pelted trains and buses with rocks. Even veiled women participated in some of the protests-a rare act in conservative Moslem Pakistan. The governor of West Pakistan, Mohammed Musa, appealed three times in two weeks over nation wide radio for an end to the disturbances-in vain...
...assassination attempt came while Ayub was sitting on a speaker's platform at Peshawar. A disaffected engineering undergraduate in the crowd leaped up and fired two Luger shots from the improbable range of 30 yds. Ayub went on to give his speech, later dismissing the attempt with soldierly aplomb: "Don't worry, it's part of life...
...spread through West Pakistan, causing four deaths and 70 arrests. The protesters echoed Bhutto's charges that Ayub's government is undemocratic and corrupt. Bhutto in turn helped fuel the riots. In the midst of the demonstrations, he set out on a whistle-stop tour from Peshawar to Lahore, declaring that "we do not want bloodshed, but we are not afraid of bloodshed. I am with the students in their struggle, for they are fighting against tyranny...
...Nehru's India preached neutralism, Pakistan early joined every alliance in sight. It was an original member of CENTO, it belongs to SEATO, and would have joined NATO if it could have. Pakistan signed a bilateral defense treaty with the U.S. in 1954 and supplied the U.S. with the Peshawar airfield as a convenient base for U-2 spy planes flying over Russia...
...city or little girls with floral bouquets. After all, Ayub Khan's new chumminess with China was not calculated to please, and Soviet leaders still remember that the U.S. U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over the Russian heartland had taken off from Pakistan's Peshawar base. But Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was on hand as Ayub Khan, jauntily wearing a black caracul cap, came down the ramp accompanied by his daughter, Begum Aurangzeb, and his Foreign Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto...