Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting at Washington's National Airport to greet his wife after her three-week visit to Europe, India and Pakistan was President Kennedy. As the beige and white family Convair, Caroline, wheeled around to a stop in front of the terminal, Kennedy walked up the aluminum ladder into the cabin. Moments later, Jack and Jackie emerged, smiling happily. Said Jackie, in a statement released later by Assistant White House Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher: "I have missed my family and have no desire to be a public personality on my own. If people were kind to me, it was because...
LADAKH (pop. 80,000), Kashmir's northeast bulge, is the sorest of all. A high, arid plateau with a jungle of peaks rising out of it, Ladakh is claimed by both India and Pakistan in their acrid dispute over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger...
...choice of gifts, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan scored a clear victory: he gave Jackie Kennedy a handsome ten" year-old bay gelding named Sardar, a trained jumper ideal for the fox hunting that she loves to pursue in the Virginia countryside. At Pakistan's ceremonious Lahore Horse and Cattle Show, she entered beside Ayub in a gold-trimmed carriage drawn by six steeds and escorted by 40 mounted horsemen in red coats. As 40,000 Pakistanis cheered, Jackie saw camels dance and salaam, prize cattle parade, horses two-step to drums. Eying a water buffalo that Ayub...
Kennedy said: "I'm glad you can appreciate him. I'd much rather have Sardar." Where Jackie had thrilled to the beauty of India's Taj Mahal, built three centuries ago by the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan, as a memorial to his wife, in Pakistan she was excited by the glitter of the 80-acre Shalimar Gardens, built by the same ruler as a memorial to his father. There she strolled along a red-carpeted walk beside glistening pools, while balloons floated about her, fountains shimmered and 7,000 guests looked on. "All my life...
Jacqueline Kennedy's Journey (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The First Lady in India and Pakistan...