Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ended, 1,500 miles distant in the cold, bleak hills near the Khyber Pass. Traveling in a sleek, air-conditioned train named Pak Jamhuriat (Pakistan Democracy), Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, barnstormed the land, urging citizens to go to the polls in support of his new conception called "basic democracies...
Ayub Khan had shopped around to get ideas for his return to "basic democracies." The U.S. Information Service obligingly loaned its volumes on democracy, and Ayub boned up on Thomas Jefferson. In a series of private talks, then U.S. Ambassador James Langley briefed Ayub on the U.S. system. Though Ayub is Sandhurst-trained and an admirer of Britain, he wants to be free of the methods inherited from the British. "So long as I am alive and at the helm of affairs," he said last week, "there will not be parliamentary democracy in this country, because it cannot work. This...
Ending Parties. Last March Ayub settled himself in his teak-paneled study in the huge President's House at Karachi and wrote the outline for his "basic democracies," which are intended "to begin at the beginning and, after building a strong, democratic base, to construct the structure above." What emerged was a political system based on the ancient institution of the village panchayat (council of elders). Each council, with elected as well as appointed representatives, will represent 10,000 people. Working without salaries, council members will be expected to levy local taxes, maintain roads, operate police forces, register births...
When the Virgin Islands installation is complete. Dr. Lilly and his helpers will spend long hours playing with the amiable dolphins and trying to converse with them. The Navy's interest in the project is in basic research; it wants to know everything possible about the sea. including the ways that sea creatures communicate. "After all," says Dr. Sid Caller of the Office of Naval Research, "submarines and frogmen are but poor replicas, hydrodynamically speaking, of what a dolphin does naturally." For instance, by swinging their heads from side to side, and uttering ultrasonic boops, dolphins can "look" through...