Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan has broken this spiral with a vigorous eight year program of birth control. Although it has the greatest population density in Asia, Japan enjoys the highest standard of living and s stable population. Similar programs in India, Communist China, and Pakistan have failed, however, due both to political pressure and lack of public interest. Unless some vigorous program is effected, the fears of the State Department maybe realized; a large, underfed populace provides suitable material for revolution...
...leave the country, Philip assured his hosts that the Queen herself would be coming out in 1961 to pay a postponed visit. Though the thought was delicately left unspoken, everyone knew that by then Ghana would probably be the Commonwealth's third republic, recognizing Elizabeth, as India and Pakistan do, not as Queen but merely as symbolic head of the Commonwealth...
...problems in these countries, from Iran through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, are of widely differing character. It is totally unrealistic to suppose that the brief stop of the President and 100 accompanying reporters is going to produce any dramatic change in the relations of these countries and the U.S., nor even much greater understanding on the part of these underdeveloped and nationalistic countries of the meaning of the "American way of life." What can and hopefully will occur is a greater realization and understanding of the problems these countries face; from their relations with China to the centralistic tendencies...
Mason, who teaches a course on the problems of underdeveloped nations, pointed out that India and Pakistan both recognize the need for "family planning." Although it would be "very wrong for the United States to press its ideas on other nations," he commented, America should not refuse help if it is requested. President Eisenhower recently rejected this idea...
Blinding snow storms less than 2000 feet from the top forced back the famous 1953 attempt to conquer the 28,250 foot peak in Pakistan. Scenes of the party's efforts to save one of its members, who eventually fell to his death, are included in the 90 minute film...