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...Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan, who "rescued" his country from corrupt politicians and unworkable parliamentary democracy. Ayub Khan's experiments with "basic democracies" and his attempt to remodel Western democracy to suit an illiterate untutored population may be the most important political development in the underdeveloped area for the next several years...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Leaders Seen as Key To Emerging Nations | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Except for the Communists, Mrs. Dean admires most of the leaders she writes about; she does not share Time magazine's scorn for Nkrumah and Sukarno, for example. But those she likes best (Bourguiba, Ayub Khan, Nyerere and Betancourt) are the non-ideaologues who are more concerned with social and economic achievement than with abstract principles. The necessities of conditions in these emerging nations, Mrs. Dean argues, have imposed certain pragmatic responses which Western democrats may find difficult to accept, yet the West must accept them if it is to learn to live with the underdeveloped world. First, most...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Leaders Seen as Key To Emerging Nations | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...edge of bankruptcy three years ago, Pakistan now has some $235 million in foreign exchange reserves, has curbed inflation at home. Ayub stoked up the Pakistan Industrial Development Corp., which starts new industries with government capital, sells them to private businessmen as soon as they are flourishing. The agency helped boost Pakistan's national income some 4% last year. Food grain output has increased almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Ayub 's Acid Test | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Woman Palace. In foreign relations. Ayub has striven earnestly to improve relations with India, talking a suspicious Nehru into meeting him at the bargaining table. If they could not get around to settling their difficulties in Kashmir, they agreed to divide the waters of the Indus River equitably. Some border tensions have eased, and trade between the two bad neighbors has increased. But despite its huge population (with 93.8 million people, it is the biggest Moslem nation in the world), Pakistan has had surprisingly little impact on world councils. Setting out to make Pakistan's influence felt more. Ayub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Ayub 's Acid Test | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Ayub has started construction on a luxurious new capital for Pakistan in the cool highlands near Rawalpindi. When completed (in ten years), it will be one of the best-planned yet lowest-cost-per-unit cities in Asia. In keeping with Ayub's austere, no-nonsense habits, he has instructed the builders that the new presidential palace should be the kind of place that "one woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Ayub 's Acid Test | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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