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The article discusses the criticism of the U.S. for manipulating the source of paper supply as a way to suppress the freedom of the press worldwide during a meeting of periodical editors in Madras, India. The Indian editors and newsmen believed that the American newspaper publishers have taken the entire output of the Canadian paper mills by making long-term contracts. The Indian publishers have been forced to pay up to 300 U.S. dollars per ton while the American publisher paid only 100-125 U.S. dollars per ton.

The article reports on various revolutions in Peking, China. These include the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Maoist riots, threats and demonstrations, and the retributory action by their own citizens. In response, Burma is planning to deal with 500,000 chanting and marching anti-Chinese demonstrators a day. The Outer Mongolia has broken off its relationship with the country in the heat of Red Guard attacks on the Mongolian embassy in Peking.

The article offers information on the political condition of the Congress Party in India headed by India Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It states that the party had been considered by Nehru to have a weak situation based on the party factionalism, and the rising gap between the party and the people. It mentions that the Congress Party had received less votes in the held state and municipal elections despite of the party's control over the majority seats in the Indian government.

The article chronicles the world tour of Canadian Prime Minister Louis Saint Laurent and presents a profile on "Time" magazine Associate Editor Edwin Copps. In covering Prime Minister's first trip to Asia, Copps describes the 72-year-old Prime Minister as an energetic traveller. The prime Minister was impressed by the antiquities of countries like Colombo and India, where he spent more than five hours at the Taj Mahal. Copps was born in Ontario, and previously wrote the cover story on the prime minister in the September 12, 1949 issue.

The article reports on the story of a nine-year-old wolf boy in India which was reported in several newspapers. Among the newspapers that published the story were the "New York Herald Tribune" and the "Baltimore Sun." It is suggested that the story was a complete hoax which followed the familiar pattern of previous reports on the same subject.

The article reports that the police in India has raided the offices and executive bungalows of industrialist Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia to investigate his tax contributions.

The article presents the views of several newspapers worldwide on the invasion of India's Prime Minister Jewaharlal Nehru in Goa. It states that the paper from Great Britain, the London Daily Mirror, viewed the invasion as a thing that diminished the status of the prime minister in the world. The "Combat" of Paris, France viewed it as the end of neutralism. Moreover, journalists from "The Chicago Tribune" considered Nehru as the champion political hypocrite of the year.

The article focuses on several businessmen who participated in an economic conference in 1957 in San Francisco, California. It highlights business individuals who sought for new investment opportunities in relation with their participation to the conference such as U Tin U and Feng-Jang Leu. It also adds that new business deals from underdeveloped countries which are in need of capital from foreign investors were offered by interested businessmen.

The article offers information on the secret meeting between 19 representatives of the Washington Special Action Group in the U.S. regarding the foreign relationship of the U.S. and India on having a war in Pakistan. It states that the meeting had disgraced the move of U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger regarding U.S. as an anti-India country, which is different from the lack of neutrality seen in the U.S. government. It mentions that the meeting discusses topics including the rise of the nation of Bangladesh, the concerns on preventing India to overrule Pakistan, and the argument on Pakistan as a corrupt military dictatorship country. It adds several people who attended the secret meeting such as Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and Admiral Elmo Zumwalt.

The article reports on the war threats to India by Pakistani president General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan . Khan had threatened that, Pakistan was almost on the verge of losing patience and that a war was inevitable. Earlier in a white issued by him stated that India was assisting the East Pakistan's strongest political party Awami League. However, the Indian administration believed that Yahya's charges of Indian collusion were a buildup for a jihad against predominantly Hindu India.

The article reports on the election of Indira Gandhi as the prime minister of India to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri . It notes that Gandhi, the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, was voted by the parliamentary members of the ruling Congress Party. It adds that Gandhi had taken over the world's second most populous nation at its severest crisis.

The article focuses on India-Pakistan conflict in 1965. It states that many are killed and wounded brought by war, attacking one another with bombs, supersonic jets, and other weaponry. President Mohammed Ayub Khan notes that India is not willing to reconcile to have an independent Pakistan, while India's Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri has become resilient opponent in war. It adds that the United Nations (UN) ordered a plebiscite that will control or take over Kashmir in India.

The article offers information on the upcoming elections in India in February 18, 1962. It reveals that about 125 million voters will cast their votes in the biggest free election in the world. It states that political candidates will be vying for the 494 seats in the Lok Sabha and 2,930 seats in 13 state assemblies. Meanwhile, it looks into the interest of the U.S. government on the election results.

The article reports on the murderous encounter between the Indian border police and the Red Chinese troops on October 1959 in the Ladakh province in India. It mentions that only five Indians escaped, nine were killed and ten were wounded by the Red Chinese troops in the ambush. It notes that the people in India felt angry and alone and that the cruelty of the behaviour of Red China made a part of some cherished convictions.