Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international maneuvers and confiscated all foreign periodicals that reported them, including TIME. This week the Shah's representatives in Ankara are to sign a bilateral agreement with the U.S. similar to ones scheduled to be signed at the same time between the U.S. and Baghdad Partners Turkey and Pakistan. Essentially the new agreement, which is not a treaty and therefore requires no two-thirds Senate approval, represents Secretary Dulles' specific extension to Iran of the Eisenhower Doctrine pledge committing the U.S. to go to its aid if Iran is the victim of Communist aggression, direct or indirect...
...Pakistan the constitution is gone, the Parliament dissolved, the country's first elections indefinitely postponed. But not since the days of Founding Father Mohammed Ali Jinnah has Pakistan had so popular a government. "On the day De-fore the revolution last October," said a now jobless politician, "I thought one of the most dangerous things you can do is to break a constitution, even if it is to stop evil. On the day after, I thought: 'Thank God someone had the courage.'" Says beefy, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan, Pakistan's military dictator and president...
...Instead of dragging themselves to work any hour of the morning, government clerks began showing up at 9. General Ayub jailed about 100 politicos, but he has since so tightened up the processes of justice that there are now fewer prisoners in jail than at practically any point in Pakistan's twelve-year history. In one province the Ayub government found 300 people still awaiting trial after being arrested as long as three years...
Ayub rules through a Cabinet of three generals and eight nonpolitical civilians, four each from East and West Pakistan. Ayub listened hard to West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard when he passed through, and has since leaned heavily for economic advice on Wilhelm Vocke, former president of West Germany's State Bank...
...winning his first National Amateur crown, Heckscher had to overcome a long series of obstacles, foremost among whom was the brilliant defending champion, Henri Salaun of Boston. Salaun is one of the very finest players in the world, probably second only to the Khan's of Pakistan at present, and has always stopped Heckscher's ambitions in the past. But Sunday, playing with a recently improved backhand, Heckscher finally pulled out a victory. Salaun played deliberately to Heckscher's backhand side in their semi-final contest, and this strategy proved his undoing...