Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy standards of hospitality, the program planned for Jawaharlal Nehru's official U.S. visit this week is as austere as vegetable curry. Wryly mindful of the pomp and circumstance unlimbered for his old foe, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, India's Prime Minister expressly requested Washington to forgo "medieval splendor." From a private luncheon with President Kennedy at Newport to an address before the U.N. General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic...
...prone to think, over here in Pakistan, that if Johnson's invitation has done little good to the impression of Pakistan abroad, it has certainly provided practical humor in the otherwise cold-war-torn diplomatic circles in Washington and other American cities-at the expense of Pakistan...
ZAFFAR HUSSAIN MIRZA Hyderabad, Pakistan...
...Most of the primary needs of Bashir Ahmad were donated. Pan Am, transportation to and from Pakistan; Waldorf-Astoria, Bashir's room in New York; his host, Vice President Johnson, the expenses in Texas. The People-to-People program paid for such things as his meals. No public funds were spent...
...wonder how many of your readers mused, as I did, over the contrast in your juxtaposed stories between 1) the comments and general effectiveness of a middleaged, illiterate camel-cart driver from Pakistan and 2) the comments of a young Smith College honor graduate and Peace Corps member during her short tour of duty in Nigeria...