FOREIGN RELATIONS: Friend from the East

Pakistan's Premier Mohammed Ali, a cricket player who also likes baseball, reached the U.S. on a state visit last week too late for the World Series but much impressed by the Cleveland Indians' defeat. "You have proved to me," quipped Ali, whose country is at odds with Nehru's nation, "that the Indians are overrated."

On his 18-day visit, Mohammed Ali plans to make a dozen talks, to see Old Faithful and Mt. Rushmore's heroic sculptures, and to get a medical checkup, a Columbia honorary degree and a tribal welcome from the Blackfeet Indians. This week in Washington he will confer...

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