Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zealand, virtually Britain's farm, which in recent years has shipped as much as 92% of its exports of butter, cheese, meat and wool to Britain. Australia and Canada are also worried, but less so, since they are less dependent on purely agricultural exports. India, Malaya, Pakistan and the Commonwealth partners in Africa are, in fact, plugging for the Common Market as a great new arena in which to sell their raw materials...
Tooling along a street in Karachi last May on his Asian whistle-stop tour, Vice President Lyndon Johnson spied one of Pakistan's prime tourist attractions: a camel cart. Lyndon stopped the car, got out to shake hands with startled Camel Driver Ahmad Bashir, 40. While the photographers snapped away, Johnson made small talk. "President Ayub Khan is coming to the U.S.," he offered. "Why don't you come too?" Bashir agreeably smiled "Sure, sure," went home to his mud-and-gunny-sack shack and forgot...
Johnson, who shook hands from Bangkok to New Delhi, drawling "Now you all come see me." went home and forgot it, too-until he read in Washington a translated press clipping from Pakistan's biggest daily newspaper, Jang, that "the U.S. Vice President has invited Bashir, a camel-cart driver, to come to America. My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He will go by jet and stay in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York." Faced with a féte accompli, Lyndon did the sporting thing: at a televised People-to-People luncheon, he suggested that it would...
...textile men know that in talks last week with representatives of the major textile-importing nations,* he pushed for greater textile imports into their countries from underdeveloped nations. Simultaneously, the U.S. sought to persuade textile-producing areas with low labor costs-Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and the U.A.R.-to agree to put voluntary limits on their exports so as to avoid complete disruption of the already glutted world textile market. The scheme had twin purposes: 1) to divert some Asian textiles from U.S. to European markets, and 2) to give the underdeveloped nations an economic boost...
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The program documents the daily lives of two U.S. diplomats, one in Chile, the other in East Pakistan, attempting to redress the notion that the Foreign Service is a gay and easy life: the cookies they push are sometimes hardtack...