Word: khans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationwide television program, President Mohammed Ayub Khan, 60, blamed neighboring India for the bad relations between the two countries that cost each of them millions every year in armament outlays. He also scoffed at India's preoccupation with China. "All this fear about China is nonsense," said Ayub, whose country, unlike India, has not suffered Chinese attack. "The Chinese have no intention of getting embroiled in this vast subcontinent with its teeming millions." If the President's pronouncement was correct, it was the happiest message that either Pakistan or India could receive as the two countries enter their...
Died. Fatima Jinnah, 74, spinster sister and confidante of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, longtime Pakistani nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...
...cities of China have been traditionally governed by boards of elders, mainly local merchants. Emperors Genghis and Kublai Khan, and those of the late Manchu dynasty, accepted the system and financed their activities by levying tribute on the cities according to size...
...Poverty Potentate Sargent Shriver, Locke was a Navy gunnery officer during World War II; his ship landed a Marine force in the Solomons led by Lieut. Colonel Victor ("Brute") Krulak-now Marine commander i.i the Pacific. During his nine-month stint in Rawalpindi, Locke skillfully reassured President Mohammed Ayub Khan of continued American interest after the IndianPakistani border...
...Khan and his uncle, Sadruddin, have the back and side windows of their Mini-Coopers done in inky black. So do Greek Snipping Scion Alex Goulandris, Actor Albert Finney and Beatle George Harrison. Fellow Beatle John Lennon's Rolls is completely blacked out except for the windshield-despite the impairment to vision. So is Prince Philip's experimental Ogle sports...