Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live martial law!" cried the peasants at village after village on the whistle-stop tour. Tall, strapping General Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, dressed in open shirt and slacks, would lean from the doorway of his private railroad car and call: "How are you? How are the crops?" The village leader answered: "We are in perfect peace through your kindness." Others crowded round to beg Ayub to save them from a distasteful return of "democracy and politicians...
Abroad, Ayub has remained firmly pro-Western and a member of CENTO. He is the first leader of Pakistan to make a determined effort to improve relations with India. The problem of the canal waters of the Indus basin is nearing settlement (TIME, June 1). After twelve years of border conflict in Kashmir, an Indian and a Pakistani commission last week concluded talks that may put this problem to rest. Half a year ago, Nehru and most Indians still spoke contemptuously of the "naked military dictatorship" in Pakistan. Today Indians are increasingly aware that social and economic evils still festering...
Last week the party came apart. Accusing the left-wingers of being "proCommunist and anti-American while pretending to be neutralist," Right-Wing Leader Sue-hiro Nishio took 30 Socialist Diet members with him and set up a new "Democratic Socialist Party." Nishio is a coldly aloof onetime foundry foreman who organized one of Japan's first labor unions. He made it clear that his new party would have no time for "the proletarian revolution" and class war, would attempt to offer Japan's growing middle class as well as its laborers a non-Marxist alternative...
Twelve Russian "students" yesterday continued their frenetic tour of Cambridge, as they met with the Deans, attended conferences and toured the College area. "The tempo in the United States is very fast," group leader Nikolai Voshchinin commented at the news conference, and the group's pace certainly proved his statement...
...name of Harvard University is well known in Russia," group leader Vadim Loginov, a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Youth Organizations, told newsmen assembled in the Quincy Junior Common Room. Loginov managed to insert some not-too-subtle propaganda in his introductory remarks: "I was very happy to hear my country had photographed the other side of the moon," he told the 20 reporters and students at the conference...