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...Year is he who most influenced the course of history and changed the destiny of the world's nations, then I nominate Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan. He has proved that a small nation can live and progress without depending upon big powers and can defeat an enemy five times stronger than itself...
...multiplying domestic problems, the President also faced a difficult round of diplomatic negotiations. Only days before Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson and West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard were scheduled to arrive this week, Johnson reluctantly decided against meeting them at the ranch and chose to fly back to Washington for the busy week of conferences...
Last week, as Washington prepared for U.S. visits from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan (on Dec. 14) and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri (in early 1966), the Administration was ready to put the tough new foreign-aid line to its sternest test...
...time has come, Lyndon Johnson believes, for practical, politician-to-politician talks with Ayub and Shastri...
...American hands-off policy might stand a chance given a strong leader in either country who could absorb the political shock of a compromise. However Ayub, already losing ground on the Kashmir issue, has had his political standing undermined by the American rebuffs. Shastri occupies the vacuum left by Nehru and thus enjoys only mild support with elections fifteen months away. In fact, peace-loving Shastri has been forced by his domestic insecurity to make the most belligerent speeches heard this year outside Peking...