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Poles Apart. The crisis is an extension of the rioting over the central governments neglect of East Pakistan that helped force President Mohammed Ayub Khan to resign two years ago. Ayub's successor, authoritarian but fair-minded General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, held out hope that the long subservient East would have a greater voice in running the country...
...Archaelogists speculate that Tepe Yahya could be the "Magan" referred to as a trading center in Sumerian texts...
...Tepe Yahya gets its name from a Persian king who, according to legend, forbade a certain marriage, whereupon the people rose in revolt, cut off his head, and buried it in the mound...
Tablets with the same form of writing had been discovered before at the ancient city of Susa on the Persian Gulf. The tablets discovered at Tepe Yahya are the first ever found in Iran, and the first found together with blank tablets-evidence for their independent origin at Tepe Yahya...
Last summer's finds indicate that the civilization at Tepe Yahya arose independently, trading with the other two centers...