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...Kennedy, Zindabad"-long live Mrs. Kennedy. That was the cry that welled up in thousands of Indian throats last week as Jacqueline Kennedy paraded across India in triumph, more than making up by her charm, good looks and splendidly attired figure for three postponements and at least 47 separate schedule changes. The trip, undertaken as a result of Prime Minister Nehru's personal invitation, was semiofficial, but it had most of the trappings, tight schedules and points-of-interest panoply of a full-fledged state visit. Hailed as the Amriki Rani, or Queen of America, Jackie was accompanied wherever...
...Indian government arrested the Sikhs' wily political leader, Master Tara Singh, for advocating a Sikh march on New Delhi to demand statehood. Before disappearing behind prison walls, Tara Singh designated Sant Fateh Singh as his successor. For weeks stretching into months, young Sikhs, shouting "Punjabi Suba Zindabad" (Long live Punjabi state), had poured out of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the Sikh temple at New Delhi-into the waiting arms of tough Indian police, who hustled them off to prison. At one time India's overburdened detention camps held 20,000 Sikhs. Ketones & Communiqués. Fortnight...
...Militia that fought the Pakistanis until the Indian army flew in to the rescue. It was a desperate defense, and the Lion of Kashmir inspired it. Once, the Pakistani tribesmen lashed a young merchant to the porch of an apple shop and told him to shout, "Pakistan zindabad, Sher-i-Kashmir' murdabad!" (Long live Pakistan! Death to the Lion of Kashmir!). But the young man refused. So the tribesmen crowned him with a jagged piece of tin, and put 14 shots through his body. He died crying Abdullah's slogan: "Victory to Hindu-Moslem unity...
...India, where he lives (in a Darjeeling slum), a public subscription was opened to build him a new home, and when he and Hillary arrived at New Delhi Airport this week, 3,000 fans burst the police cordons and swept him a quarter mile down the runway, shouting "Tenzing Zindabad!" (Long Live Tenzing...
...crowd reacted with a roar of delight. It surged 15 deep against the police lines. It jostled and milled across the hotel lawns, and smashed flower pots in a wild effort to get closer. It chanted: "Eleanor Roosevelt zindabad!" (Long live Eleanor Roosevelt...