Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year France received only $51 million, and Britain just $25 million. At the same time, India, with $838 million last year, and Pakistan with $439 million, have come from far down...
...Clay committee argued that both India and Pakistan should continue to be heavy beneficiaries of U.S. aid, if only because of their precarious positions against the "Red Chinese colossus." But what is the sense of helping a mixed-up country like left-leaning Sukarno's Indonesia? Says the Clay report: "We do not see how external assistance can be granted to this nation by free world countries, unless it puts its internal house in order, provides fair treatment to foreign creditors and enterprises, and refrains from international adventures...
Under the best of circumstances, the chances of India and Pakistan's solving their prickly dispute over control of Kashmir are not very bright. Last week, on the eve of the fourth round of talks in Calcutta, Pakistan dimmed hopes of settlement even further by signing a border agreement with Red China, which recognized Pakistani control to a part of northern Kashmir that has long been claimed by the Indians...
India angrily fired off notes to both Rawalpindi and Peking condemning the pact. New Delhi was less disturbed by the barren, mountainous geography involved than by the fact that Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could travel to Peking and negotiate a separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises...
...Though Pakistan still says it wants all of Kashmir, it has sidetracked its demand for a plebiscite over the whole area, which is 77% Moslem. The prospect is for another round of negotiations in April, this time in New Delhi...