Word: ayub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dictator by the will of the people." Southern Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith, busy developing a political hammer lock to keep some 250,000 whites in power over the nation's 4,000,000 blacks, insists that what he is about is "responsible democracy." Pakistan's Ayub Khan had no sooner seized power in a military coup d'état seven years ago than he set his nation upon the arbitrary road of "basic democracy...
Pakistan's handsome President Mohammed Ayub Khan last week completed Stage 2 of his diplomatic grand tour. His first stop had been Peking, where he got the red-carpet treatment, was hailed by cheering thousands who beat gongs and drums in welcome, and had formal banquets and long talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Out of it all came an interest-free $60 million loan with which to purchase Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...
...Ayub Khan expected more of the same in Moscow, he was disappointed. The Soviet reception was correct but cool. There was no 21-gun salute; there were no TV cameras, no crowds of citizens trucked out from the city or little girls with floral bouquets. After all, Ayub Khan's new chumminess with China was not calculated to please, and Soviet leaders still remember that the U.S. U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over the Russian heartland had taken off from Pakistan's Peshawar base. But Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was on hand...
There was time for only one talk with Party First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev before he and Kosygin entrained for Poland. The talk was officially described as "friendly and frank"-and "frank" in Communist terms means disagreement. One purpose of the trip was Ayub Khan's hope to budge the Soviets from supporting India's claim to Kashmir, which is disputed by Pakistan. Still, Ayub Khan said he appreciated the "open-mindedness" of the Soviet leaders. He invited his hosts to visit him in Karachi, but Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan said he had already been there and someone else...
...well machinery and extended for another five years its oil-exploration project in Pakistan. On the economic side, trade between the two countries will be trebled, with Russia exchanging autos, tractors and road-building machinery for Pakistan's jute, raw cotton, hides and tea. Next week Ayub Khan continues his tour by jetting to Washington for conferences with President Lyndon Johnson and a five-day visit...