Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organized by the Moscow-dominated World Federation of Democratic Youth, the organization has already sent volunteers to twelve countries, including Ghana, Tanzania, India, Pakistan, Cuba, Mongolia and several Arab nations. Their activities usually parallel those of the U.S. Peace Corps, and the two groups, in fact, often work in the same towns. The Communists say that their new volunteers will be sent to teach in the Sudan, set up a clinic in the Congo, and build a school and irrigation dams in India, a youth center in Somalia, a sanitarium in Mongolia and a hospital on Cyprus. Averaging between...
Once a military stronghold for maharajahs, the fortress of Mangla in West Pakistan has in recent years commanded nothing more than a sweeping view of a river valley to the southwest and snow-tipped mountains to the north. Last week Pakistan President Ayub Khan came to Mangla to dedicate its new clay and sandstone dam-part of a $2 billion complex that when completed will be the world's largest irrigation network, bringing water to 30 million acres of land and serving the 50 million people who live in the vast Indus River basin...
Promoted by the World Bank and agreed to by India and Pakistan in 1960, the project defines the water rights of the two countries, and will control the seasonal fluctuations of the 1,900-mile Indus and its five tributaries through a system of canals, dikes and dams. The U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, West Germany and New Zealand have committed themselves to supply nearly $1 billion toward the cost...
...largest-capacity spillway, discharging 1.2 million cu. ft. of water per second, four times as much as Niagara Falls. Five 36-ft. tunnels drain the river; a subsidiary dike completes a 100 sq.mi. reservoir. Eventually, the powerhouse will hold ten 100,000-kw. generators to supply Pakistan's burgeoning industry...
Logistically, it was a prodigious undertaking. Mangla lies in a hot, dusty plain, some 50 miles east of Rawalpindi, Pakistan's hilly capital. A fully air-conditioned town had to be built to accommodate 2,500 American and European workers. More than 18,000 Urdu-speaking Pakistanis were trained on the job, some learning to operate the most modern sort of earth-moving equipment. A special diet had to be provided for them after the contractors found they lacked the stamina for an eight-hour day. A month before the Jhelum River was to be diverted, war broke...