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Word: appointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since many of the council members who will be elected during the two-week balloting will be both inexperienced and illiterate (in a country 82% illiterate), Ayub has ordered that council chairmen receive two months of training in financial and administrative affairs. This spring, Ayub will appoint a commission to draft a constitution to go into effect by 1961. It will feature a strong executive, an absence of political parties ("Otherwise, we will have no peace"), and the in direct election of a national legislature and President by the new councils, serving as electoral colleges. The idea resembles the democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: If Not Democracy, What? | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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