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...assassination attempt came while Ayub was sitting on a speaker's platform at Peshawar. A disaffected engineering undergraduate in the crowd leaped up and fired two Luger shots from the improbable range of 30 yds. Ayub went on to give his speech, later dismissing the attempt with soldierly aplomb: "Don't worry, it's part of life...
...years, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan has ruled his country with the firm hand of a field marshal, which he is. Under his version of "basic democracy," Ayub's rule is sustained by indirect elections through a sympathetic electoral college of 120,000 educated Pakistanis. He, in turn, provides Pakistan with political stability and a steadily improving economy. But last week Pakistan's facade of political calm cracked. A would-be assassin took two wild potshots at Ayub. Student riots broke out in half a dozen cities...
...police arrested 141 opposition politicians, including Ayub's chief rival, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto...
Islam and Socialism. Not so easily dismissed is the volatile combination of riotous students and their champion, ex-Minister Bhutto. A compelling orator, Bhutto is the scion of a powerful Pakistani family, and a graduate of both Berkeley and Oxford. He joined Ayub's first Cabinet at 30. As Foreign Minister from 1963 to 1966, Bhutto took a belligerent line with India, and engineered Pakistan's "Red shift" toward China and away from the U.S. He was the most popular man in the Cabinet by 1966, when Ayub sacked him in order to bring Pakistan back toward...
Married. Crown Prince Hassan ibn Talal of Jordan, 20, youngest brother of King Hussein; and Princess Sarvath, 21, daughter of Pakistan's late commissioner to Great Britain; in a Moslem ceremony; in Karachi. Among the 100 guests were Hussein and Pakistani President Ayub Khan...