Word: khans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kraar cabled from Rawalpindi, "but I found this town completely quiet. It made me feel like that correspondent in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, who cabled his home office, ADEN UN-WARWISE, while a competitor reported, ADEN WARWISE. The main event that evening was a dinner that President Yahya Khan was giving for the Chinese Communist First Minister of Machine Building...
...West and East Pakistan would be resolved. "Solutions have been found even to seemingly insoluble problems," she said. She added that India would take no independent action until Western leaders have had a chance to defuse the crisis. The hope: that they would pressure Pakistan President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan's military regime into finding a political solution acceptable to the East Pakistanis...
...Washington and New Delhi were at their lowest point since India won independence in 1947, largely as a result of the Administration's continued arms shipments to Pakistan. New Delhi hoped to persuade Washington to withdraw its economic and military support from Pakistan, whose President, Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, is carrying on a policy of attrition against East Pakistan. Washington, for its part, hoped to dissuade New Delhi from striking out against Pakistan...
...years ago the Vietnamese drove out a better-equipped and trained invading Chinese army. The cost was high. But for three hundred years the Vietnamese enjoyed relatively secure boundaries. Three hundred years later the Vietnamese were forced to take up arms against an invading Mongolian army led by Kubla Khan. Again, the cost was high. But a united front of landowners, merchants, artisans, and peasants did not hesitate to shed blood--their own and that of the invading troops--in an effort to preserve Vietnam's territorial independence...
Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 34, Imam, or spiritual leader, of 20 million Ismaili Moslems; and the Begum, Princess Salima, 31, onetime London fashion model and former wife of Lord James Crichton-Stuart; their second child, a son and heir to the title; in Pregny, Switzerland. Name: Rahim...