Word: pakistani
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...last week's Pakistani celebrations suggested, the Tashkent talks hardly brought true peace to the subcontinent. Each side is rebuilding its military forces while regularly accusing the other of bad faith...
...that further talks be broadened beyond the question of control of the troubled state; Pakistan will discuss nothing but Kashmir. True to the Tashkent agreement, each side has withdrawn its troops a few miles behind the cease-fire line. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been restored, and Pakistani and Indian airliners once again overfly one another's territory...
Grace & Delight. So pleased was the Pakistani government with the new reactor that last week it gave Stone the staggering commission to design its new capital at Islamabad. Working with a budget approaching $100 million, Stone will design five government structures, including the presidential residence, in the new capital's 50-block central core...
...offbeat: from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa Republican H. R. Gross grouched that he was not going to contribute $5 for an "heiress...
...hope that it grows and flourishes like the friendship between Pakistan and China." Asked Ayub, in his clipped Sandhurst English: "It becomes a big tree, does it?" And at a banquet where Liu unexpectedly offered not only a toast but also a prepared text for the press, the Pakistani President-more likely in reference to the meal than the occasion-intoned coolly, "I hope you have all had a bellyful...