Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limousines rolled up, one after another, the honor guard posted before Washington's vast, columned Interdepartmental Auditorium repeatedly sprang to attention. Inside the hushed hall a loudspeaker announced each arrival: Premier Manouchehr Eghbal of Iran, Premier Adnan Menderes of Turkey, Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir of Pakistan, British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia. With all due pomp, the U.S. last week was playing host to the semiannual Ministerial Council of CENTO, the Baghdad-less Baghdad Pact...
...often does, pomp concealed a certain lack of substance. When revolutionary Iraq walked out of the Baghdad Pact last March, the remaining members along the strategic Northern Tier of the Middle East-Turkey, Iran and Pakistan -were badly shaken. To reassure them, the U.S. hastily signed bilateral defense treaties with each. (Unlike Britain, which is a full partner, the U.S. has consistently refused formal membership in the pact for fear of stirring up new resentment in India, Israel and most of the Arab states.) With this encouragement, the pact members moved their headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara, and rustled...
...Washington meeting, Pakistan's M.O.A. Baig, CENTO's secretary-general, insisted: "Iran is not, repeat not, in a shaky position." But CENTO and the U.S. were sufficiently concerned so that late in the week Dwight Eisenhower issued an unusual statement stressing "the gravity with which the U.S. would view a threat to the territorial integrity or political independence of Iran...
...Western skies temporarily looked clearer, the storm clouds were still piling up in the East. In New Delhi last week the Indian government put out a map showing in detail the extensive areas on its side of the Himalayas (including some 6,000 sq. mi. of Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier...
...like to watch the big power shovels and the ponderous cats crunch through their job, or like to hear the big blast in the deep hole. And those who like to follow the impressive accomplishments of men and machines-from tunnels to tough road jobs, to bridge building in Pakistan-may not mind the pure corn of the story line and the predictable antics of those two hefty part ners, Keenan Wynn and Decathlon Star Bob Mathias...