Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midst all the grandeur and panoply Pakistan's Ayub had a case to sell to the President: the Kashmir question. General Ayub tried to convince the President that India's Nehru must consent to the reopening of negotiations on the disputed land. After all, Pakistan is a U.S. ally while India is neutralist, ran the argument, so Pakistan deserves U.S. support. Ike listened carefully but was noncommittal...
...left Pakistan as triumphantly as he entered. "Our discussions," declared Ayub, "have absolutely opened my eyes. It has been a matter of real education and information for us ... You are indeed a great...
Kush & Pushtu. Only 70 jet min. away, beyond the crumbled desert hills of Pakistan's northwest frontier, past the snow-covered valleys that nestle in the Hindu Kush where Alexander and his Macedonians trod, lay Kabul and the feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul...
Last week, with the blessings of World Bank President Eugene Black, a new kind of international commission was being formed, to concentrate on devising coordinated aid programs for one key area -India and Pakistan, where nearly 500 million people live. The commissioners would be top-drawer private bankers-for the U.S., perhaps Chase Manhattan Bank's John J. McCloy or Detroit Bank & Trust Co.'s Joseph M. Dodge; for Britain, Sir Oliver Franks; for West Germany, Chancellor Adenauer's influential banker friend, Hermann Abs. Perhaps Jean Monnet would be added from France, and Escott Reid from Canada...
...Sept. 28) had so strengthened France's moral posture that even Saudi Arabia's volatile Ahmad Shukairy, wildest of Arab orators, felt obliged to express his "esteem, tribute, and high regard" for the general. Seeing that they were not mustering enough support, the Afro-Asians, led by Pakistan's Aly Khan, softened their resolution even more (ALGERIAN REBELS RUN UNDER ALY KHAN'S COLORS, headlined one Paris paper...