Word: khans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of both East and West Pakistan responded to the increasingly totalitarian nature of their government and the increasing income disparities in their country with large-scale urban rioting in 1968-69 that forced President Ayub Khan to resign. A token reshuffling of generals produced a new strongman, Yahya Khan, who continued the same repressive civil and economic policies. As the elite in West Pakistan consolidated its control, East Pakistan increasingly approximated a colony of the West, supplying raw materials to Western industry and serving as a market for the finished products. Political domination of the East by the Western...
...Finnish Ambassador to the U.N. Max Jakobson. The French government, however, last week suddenly began to lobby for selection of someone more linguistically able. Distressed by the poor French of Thant, the French are hoping for a French-speaking successor. A favorite appears to be Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who is the U.N. high commissioner for refugees and speaks the language exquisitely...
...idea, which has been treated as more or less prophetic fiction by countless writers from Aldous Huxley to Agatha Christie, carries considerable fascination. What if a pill had been available to soothe Genghis Khan or Alexander, or bend Adolph Hitler's mind to some charitable humanity? Clark's proposal is an extraordinarily dramatic extension of the argument made by Behavioral Psychologist B.F. Skinner (see cover story) that man must be controlled to survive...
Patiently examining dozens of tiny tektites taken from the ocean floor off the Ivory Coast, Physicists Saeed A. Durrani and Hameed A. Khan found a striking correlation: large numbers of tektites had drifted to the sea bottom at about the same time that the earth's magnetic field is known to have had one of its reversals, some 900,000 years ago. Checking with other research, they found that another major concentration of these microtektites had settled around Australasia during another reversal that took place 700,000 years...
Such reversals had already been found to have coincided with the extinction of many species of plants and animals (TIME, Nov. 30). This led Durrani and Khan to speculate about what kind of event could cause the reversals and wreak the other damage at the same time. They concluded that the earth's magnetic field may be so precariously balanced (171 reversals in the past 76 million years) that even a small jolt would be enough to upset it. Such a jolt, they argue in a recent issue of Nature, could easily have been caused by a comet...