Word: chaklala
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Marriage Meltdown "Asia's divorce boom brings to light one of the worst effects of the cultural invasion of American concepts on the rest of the world." Agha Amir Ahsan Chaklala, Pakistan...
Kissinger's arrival in Peking was set for July 9; the cover was a lengthy "information trip" through Asia beginning July 1 and taking him to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, whence he slipped away by means of an elaborate ruse. Among other things, this involved a predawn drive to Chaklala Airport with Kissinger wearing sunglasses and a hat "to ensure that no stray pedestrian spotted me? an unlikely contingency at that hour in Islamabad, where my name was scarcely a household word." During his flight to Peking, Kissinger recalled how John Foster Dulles had refused to shake Chou...
...trip can be complete without the saga of my shirts. Knowing the vicissitudes of a hectic twelve-day trip through Asia, I had asked my aide Dave Halperin to be sure to set aside a couple of clean shirts specifically for Peking. As the Pakistani plane took off from Chaklala and soared toward the Himalayas, Halperin, who had come to see me off, was stunned by the realization that he had set aside the shirts so carefully that I could not have packed them; at this thought he became physically sick. I was aghast when, in the plane, I wanted...
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