Word: akhund
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...Iqbal Akhund told fellows of the Center for International Affairs that even with the new arms purchases Pakistan will be unable to win a war against India...
...Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto wrote to Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi and assured her that had we ever the intention of starting a war with India--and we have no reason--we could hardly win it with the spare parts and few other items we'll be buying from the U.S." Akhund said...
Only amateurs in Government, said he, grinning, talk of putting a pooh-bah, a Tsar or an Akhund of Swat in charge of national defense. No one man knows enough for the job. Better, said he, to have on the board management (Knudsen), labor (Hillman) and the user-buyers of national defense products (Navy's Knox, Army's Stimson). Under their four-man chairmanship (if it works that way) will be planned the three big Ps of industrial defense: 1) Production, 2) Purchasing, 3) Priorities. The National Defense Advisory Commission will go on planning, advising...