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When starchy Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan, 54, stepped from his green and white Boeing 707 at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base last week, U.S. officials were well aware that they had come to meet a talkative tiger. Days before in London, the plain-spoken President of Pakistan had demonstrated his old soldier's scorn for diplomatic niceties, had loudly broadcast his doubts about U.S. policy in Southeast Asia and threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take...
Highlight of Ayub's busy week was his first night in Washington, when he was guest of honor at Jackie Kennedy's imaginative fête champêtre at Mount Vernon. The silty Potomac glittered golden in the setting sun as 138 guests boarded four flower-laden boats (each with its own musicians) for the 15-mile cruise to George Washington's sprawling estate. The ladies had been instructed to wear short dresses (the better to clamber about Mount Vernon's expansive lawn), and the men wore white dinner coats-except, unaccountably-the clothes-conscious...
Brains & Backbone. Next morning, after only two hours of sleep, Ayub showed up at 9 a.m. to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then checked in at the White House for a long, serious talk with the President. This time, he came bearing gifts: two Pakistani rugs for the President, a painting for Mrs. Kennedy, a doll for Caroline and two silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon...
...rest of his exhausting U.S. tour, Ayub needed all the iron he had. He found the President deaf to his impertinent insistence that the U.S. halt military aid to neutral India, got only silence from Catholic Kennedy when he asked for U.S. help in controlling Pakistan's soaring birth rate. (Said Ayub: "We want to be able to make 'em take a pill, then poof, that's that.") But Ayub did not hesitate to tell Kennedy exactly what he thought of Nehru ("People think he's thinking. Actually, he's just in a trance...
...real and tangible advantages of Commonwealth membership did not exist, the Commonwealth itself might fall apart." Ceylon asked for special guarantees for its vital tea trade, which makes up 60% of its exports. The cheeriest support Britain got anywhere in the Commonwealth came from Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, who forthrightly said, "I think it would be a good thing if Britain joined the Common Market.'' His reason: it would strengthen Europe and the West against Communism...