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...second reason is that in 1963, shortly after India's brief but bloody war with China, Pakistan worked out a provisional border agreement with Peking ceding some 1,300 sq. mi. of Kashmir to China. Peking has since linked up the old "silk route" highway from Sinkiang province to the city of Gilgit in Pakistani Kashmir with an all-weather macadam motor highway running down to the northern region of Ladakh near the cease-fire line. Should Indian troops get anywhere near China's highway or try to grasp its portion of Kashmir, New Delhi could expect to have...
...roughly half a dozen sites along the border (see map, page 31). At week's end, a combination of Indian regulars and Bengali Mukti Bahini (the East Pakistani liberation forces, which oppose West Pakistan's rule over the East) had captured portions of five areas, totaling perhaps 60 sq. mi. of real estate. All along the border, artillery exchanges and firefights kept the situation tense and dangerous through the week. Scene of the biggest battle was a slender salient of India that points sharply into East Pakistan some 20 miles west of the Pakistani city of Jessore, an important railhead...
Local response has already been heartening. Ford officials say that Detroit businesses have indicated interest in occupying as much as 2,000,000 of the project's 5,000,000 sq. ft. of office space. As for Detroit Mayor Roman S. Gribbs. he summed up his feelings about Ford's action in a word: "magnificent...
...most devastating cyclones in history have boiled up out of the Bay of Bengal. In 1876, one of them took 100,000 lives in half an hour. In 1942, a wall of sea water 30 ft. high, advancing in front of 120-m.p.h. winds, washed over 5,000 sq. mi. of Bengal. In this century's worst natural disaster, a cyclone-rose up from the bay last year and swept across the coastal area of East Pakistan, killing as many as 500,000. Last week the ghastly business of counting bodies along the bay's palm-fringed coastline...
...killer storm left nearly 10,000 sq. mi. of fertile farm land inundated, in some places by water 18 ft. deep. The area of greatest suffering was a heavily populated 15-mile stretch of coastline between the Mahanadi and Baitarani rivers...