Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Russians, despite its traditionally close ties with China. Earlier this year Zia dispatched a high-level delegation to Moscow. The ostensible purpose was to secure an additional $250 million in credits to finish a steel mill in Karachi that the Pakistanis are building with Soviet help. But in an interview with TIME, Zia made clear that another purpose of the mission was to warn the U.S. that "I must have my own opening?I must have our options open...
...wants the CENTO charter rewritten so that Pakistan could call for alliance help if threatened by an "indirect" Soviet attack. Washington interprets this as an unwarranted commitment to defend Zia in the event of another Indo-Pakistani war, and will have none of it. In response, the Pakistanis talk about the advantages of withdrawing from CENTO and joining the nonaligned movement. Says Zia: "CENTO is becoming a hindrance to Pakistan's security." Besides, he adds, "in the current day, it's better to be nonaligned than aligned. Look at India and Afghanistan. Both under the Soviet Union, yet they...
...later, nine armed guerrilla soldiers arrived. "It's only because I know a terrorist when I see one that I'm still alive," recalled Anthony Hill, 39, an army reservist. He hid in the bush. At first the guerrillas, clad in jungle green uniforms, seemed friendly, promising help. But then they herded together the ten people at the wreckage, robbed them of their valuables, and finally cut them down with automatic weapons fire. From another hiding place, businessman Hans Hansen and his wife Diana could hear the victims crying, "Please don't shoot us!" as the firing...
...brought an end to the fighting, Smith had flown to the Zambian capital to see Nkomo on Aug. 14. Smith urged Nkomo to join the Salisbury government and thereby, in effect, dump his Marxist co-leader of the Patriotic Front, Robert Mugabe. In return, Smith promised to help Nkomo become the first President of an independent Zimbabwe, as the country will be known, and at that time Nkomo's guerrillas would merge with the existing security forces...
...Welsh and Scottish Nationalists. These extra votes should enable Callaghan to survive a Tory test of confidence in November, when the Queen delivers her annual government-written speech to Parliament. It is virtually inconceivable that Callaghan would have decided to hold on without the Nationalists' promise of help...