Word: khan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year is he who most influenced the course of history and changed the destiny of the world's nations, then I nominate Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan. He has proved that a small nation can live and progress without depending upon big powers and can defeat an enemy five times stronger than itself...
...multiplying domestic problems, the President also faced a difficult round of diplomatic negotiations. Only days before Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson and West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard were scheduled to arrive this week, Johnson reluctantly decided against meeting them at the ranch and chose to fly back to Washington for the busy week of conferences...
Last week, as Washington prepared for U.S. visits from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan (on Dec. 14) and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri (in early 1966), the Administration was ready to put the tough new foreign-aid line to its sternest test...
Since President Mohammed Ayub Khan is a rational man, not given to fits of pique, observers could only attribute the odd step to the arcane maneuvering of that powerful pack of officials that has risen around Ayub seeking a new direction for Pakistan. That direction is due East-toward Peking. The group, which occupies many of the most important posts in the civil service and reaches into the Cabinet itself, is determined to keep the war going in India, and sees closer ties with neighboring Red China as a solution to Pakistan's foreign policy problems...
Died. Patrick Guinness, 34, banker son of British Financier Loel Guinness and Joan (later Princess Aly Khan) Guinness, half-brother of Aga Khan IV and since 1955 husband of Countess Dolores von Furstenberg, who also happens to be his stepsister (Dolores' mother, Gloria, married Patrick's father in 1951); of injuries sustained when his custom-built Iso-Rivolta plowed into a tree at 110 m.p.h.; near Turtig, Switzerland...