MIDDLE EAST: Plain Talk

To non-Moslems, Arab leaders often seem more interested in bemoaning lost glories and nursing old grudges than in attacking the problems of the day. Last week Pakistan's Moslem President Mohammed Ayub Khan arrived in Cairo and throwing away a diplomatically phrased set speech, delivered the sharpest criticisms of Moslems by a Moslem heard in many a year.

Ayub spoke plainly on his view of the long-festering problem of refugees along the Israeli border, where more than a million PalestiniansĀ—those who fled or were ejected by Israel, and the children born to them sinceĀ—still inhabit squalid detention camps in Jordan, Syria and...

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