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...surest way of improving both administration and effectiveness. He even made certain that such aid foes as Louisiana's Representative Otto Passman and Brooklyn's John Rooney were exposed to a soothing sunset on the Potomac by including them in the Mount Vernon reception for President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan (see The Capital...
Pope & President. Then the protocol-shattering frankness of President Ayub's 50-minute talk to a joint session of Congress gave the program an unexpected boost. After spelling out Pakistan's groping toward democracy and its dependence on U.S. financial aid, Ayub threatened: "We are pressing against you today as friends. If we make good, I think you will in some fashion get [your money] back. If we do not make good and if, heaven forbid, we go under Communism, then we shall still press against you-but not as friends." The "affluent" U.S., said Ayub, really...
...tribesmen-some 9,000,000 on the Pakistan side of the border alone. The Pathans love to shoot, make their own guns by hand, admit allegiance to neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan. (But once assimilated, the tall, tough Pathans make natural leaders: both the Afghan royal family and Pakistan President Ayub Khan are of Pathan stock.) The Afghans have piously encouraged the Pathans' demand for an autonomous state of their own. A series of border shootings since September has rubbed Pakistan's nerves raw. If Pakistan's big army should make serious trouble, Daoud might conceivably invite Russian...
Guest: Mohammed Ayub Khan, president of Pakistan...
...Asian whistle-stop tour, Vice President Lyndon Johnson spied one of Pakistan's prime tourist attractions: a camel cart. Lyndon stopped the car, got out to shake hands with startled Camel Driver Ahmad Bashir, 40. While the photographers snapped away, Johnson made small talk. "President Ayub Khan is coming to the U.S.," he offered. "Why don't you come too?" Bashir agreeably smiled "Sure, sure," went home to his mud-and-gunny-sack shack and forgot...