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...major industries, banks and insurance companies. In foreign policy too he follows a middle course. Where West Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto favors closer ties with China and the Soviet Union and is stridently anti-Indian, Mujib would like to trade with India and is regarded as moderately pro-Western...
...West Pakistan, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his Pakistan People's Party emerged as the strongest force, capturing 83 of 144 seats. Bhutto, 43, and Mujib, 48, are poles apart. Son of a wealthy feudal landowning family. Bhutto is pro-Chinese and anti-Indian: Mujib, product of a middle-class village family, is pro-Western and would like to make peace with India. More important, most of West Pakistan's capitalists, bureaucrats and army officers support Bhutto, who opposes Mujib's six points because they would destroy Pakistan's unity and his own ambitions...
...when "guess-who" was still Vice President, a military-led and middle-class supported coup overthrew a pro-Western reactionary dictatorship in Iraq. When the new government threatened to nationalize some of the foreign investments in its country, the U. S. responded by landing Marines in Lebanon, while the British landed paratroops in Jordan. As a front-page dispatch in the N. Y. Times said: "Intervention will not be extended to Iraq as long as the revolutionary government in Iraq respects Western oil interests...
Barely in Business. The suddenly intensified U.S. air war also implies a worry that if the pro-Western regimes in Cambodia and Laos were to collapse. South Viet Nam would come under intolerable pressure. In skirmish after skirmish, the Cambodian regime's 160,000-man army has proved unable to hold its own against Communist forces without American support in the air and help from the South Vietnamese on the ground. After the spectacular raids on Pochentong airport and targets in Phnom-Penh, Premier Lon Nol was described by his aides as "depressed." He could not have been particularly...
Hindu Chauvinism. Despite her colleagues' counsels of caution, Indira was acutely aware of the efforts being made by three opposition parties to form a conservative alliance. These include the right wing of the old Congress Party, the free-enterprising pro-Western Swatantra, and the fast-growing Jana Sangh, which has a strong rural base in the northern Hindi-speaking states. Often accused of pro-Hindu chauvinism, the anti-Moslem Jana Sangh is particularly angry with Indira for having cooperated with the local branch of the Moslem League in last year's Kerala state elections. Mrs. Gandhi, in turn...