Word: ayub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priority to increasing farm output. He halted the bloody language riots in the south by indefinitely shelving the law establishing Hindi as the sole official tongue. "We must seek the middle way," he declared. In fact, only in relations with Pakistan did Shastri take a hard line. When Ayub forced India's hand over Kashmir, the little Prime Minister responded with the might of his military...
...hard line with Pakistan that led him ultimately to the Russian city of Tashkent, where, at the invitation of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, he met with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan for peace talks to settle the border war. At first the conference stalled on the very issue over which the two nations had warred: Kashmir. The impasse was finally broken by Kosygin, who persuaded the two men to skirt Kashmir and try to settle other problems. It was a considerable diplomatic triumph for Moscow and a major victory for Shastri. Without retreating on Kashmir, he negotiated an agreement...
...morning after his death, Premier Kosygin and President Ayub Khan shouldered Shastri's coffin and bore it to a blue-and-silver Soviet Aeroflot IL-18 airliner for the 3½-hour flight to a mourning New Delhi and reunion with Shastri's grief-stricken family. As Indian generals carried the flag-covered body into his home at 10 Janpath (People's Way), Shastri's wife Lalita threw herself on her dead husband and kissed his face. "Shastriji, you have left me alone!" she wailed...
...envoys. But America's allies and much of the nonaligned world clearly were impressed. Indian Prime Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin-yo aru hikeshi otoko-"the trustworthy man who puts out fires." Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina goes to Moscow this week to sign Russo-Japanese air and trade agreements, and, he, too, promised to urge...
Shastri had been in Tashkent since Jan. 2 at the invitation of Soviet Premier Alexel N. Kosygin to discuss peace between India and Pakistan. Although the pact signed yesterday did not settle the main issue, possession of Pakistan, Shastri and Ayub agreed to start withdrawing troops from each others' soil and to work for peace...