Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summed up a State Department official: "We get rid of our surpluses, we create a future demand, we help a critical country build." With the Indian agreement signed and sealed, Ezra Benson turned to the next items on his surplus-slicing agenda: similar but smaller deals with Pakistan and Brazil, designed to help them...
Died. Ghulam Mohammed, 61, frail ex-Governor General of Pakistan (1951-55), who, as its first Finance Minister, buttressed his country's shaky economy, allied it with the U.S., was named Governor General and became the strongman of Pakistan; of a heart attack; in Karachi, Pakistan...
...Italy, crossed Yugoslavia and Greece. Outside Zagreb they had their only flat. On through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...
...play hob with India's new five-year plan. Even more disturbing to India is the prospect that if Nasser were to fall, Egypt (and the canal) might fall into the hands of an orthodox Moslem government that would ally itself with India's bitter enemy, Moslem Pakistan. Nehru is, therefore, almost as anxious as Eden to ensure that Egypt does not win unfettered control of the canal. But unlike Eden, Nehru wants no overthrow of Nasser. Nasser, unique among Moslem leaders, is on better terms with New Delhi than with Karachi. Nehru's solution: public denunciation...
...smaller and the country's potential market bigger than it had calculated. Already losing 10% to 30% of the value of the bartered rice, Burma decided to lower slightly the prices on the rest of the crop. It found itself besieged by cash customers: India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaya. Now Burma faces a frustrating problem: there is not enough exportable rice to supply cash customers and at the same time fulfill barter obligations (600,000 tons a year) to the Iron Curtain countries. Burma has already mortgaged some of its 1957 crop to meet 1956 commitments. Worst...