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...disputed land is the size of Minnesota, lakes and all. It falls from the wind-whipped mountains of Gilgit and Ladakh in the north to the idyllic Vale of Kashmir. In the Himalayas, primitive mountain tribesmen keep herds of graceful, sure-footed Kashmir goats, whose soft fleece becomes the cashmere of Fifth Avenue and Regent Street; the cool lakes near Kashmir's capital city of Srinagar are dotted with the elegant houseboats of wealthy Indians...
Thus began a full-scale war in Kashmir. India went to the United Nations for relief. In 1949 the U.N. demarcated a cease-fire line that gave India the richest two-thirds of Kashmir, including most of Ladakh, the Vale, and the predominantly Hindu area of Jammu. But India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had pledged that "the fate of Kashmir must ultimately be decided by its people." Declared Nehru: "We are prepared, when peace, law and order have been established, to have a referendum under some international auspices like...
...Director Michael Cacoyannis (Stella) has attempted an adaptation of Euripides' Electra. Up to a point, the attempt excitingly succeeds. The performers, most notably Irene Papas, who interprets Electra, move with the dignity of figures in a ritual, speak with a largeness suggesting incantation. And the settings-a bucolic vale in Attica, the rude stump of the great palace at Mycenae-breathe a legendary grandeur...
...intimate living and learning Ihe new University of California at Santa Cruz will eventually consist of 20 small liberal arts colleges like Amherst or Swarthmore and about ten graduate schools. Each will have about 600 students, and each will have its own traditions. The idea borrows from Oxford Vale, Harvard, and California's Claremont "cluster" of private colleges, which includes Scnpps and Pomona...
...ceiling on total campaign expenditures, it required that every two weeks throughout the campaign the committees of all candidates for state-wide office file in the Secretary of State's office itemized reports of all expenditures and liabilities over $50 that were incurred during the two week inter-vale. Among the first candidates this law would affect were the Senatorial contenders Ted Kennedy and George Lodge. Presumably, the prospect of campaign finances being open for public inspection would inhibit the candidates and their committees from amassing distastefully large expenditures. The public would be likely to react against one canddate...