Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Tidings. Humphrey went next to Karachi, where the populace was cool and the press preachy. The Vice President got a graphic reminder of past strains in U.S.-Pakistan relations (despite the $4.7 billion that the nation has received in American aid) when his motorcade took him past the ruins of a U.S. Information Service center that was set afire in anti-Washington riots last September. To both Pakistan and India, which are still smarting over suspension of U.S. aid programs as a result of their border war over Kashmir, Humphrey bore good, if modest, tidings. After conferring with Pakistan...
Nonetheless, U.S. holdings in foreign currency have grown by $382 million in the past five years. In ten countries, the bankroll exceeds U.S. needs for the next two years, and the excess is nearly as large in nine others. India, Pakistan and Egypt pose the biggest problem. In India alone, the U.S. holds $1 billion in rupees...
Other Harvard teams in Liberia, Argentina, and Pakistan are not financed by the Ford Foundation, Papanek said. These are not faced with disruption as in Colombia, he added...
...them up, all right, especially on the day, weeks later, when he finally had enough fuel on board for an escape. Five airport guards tried to stop him by hanging onto the tail. He blew them off with a blast of prop wash and headed for Pakistan, but not before circling over the Delhi jail to drop a packet of cookies to his former fellow inmates. Flying low, he eluded the Indian Air Force jets that were scrambled to bring him back. After landing at Karachi, he declared to reporters: "The only violation of Indian law I have committed...
...hastily buried box. What that box contained the police refused to say, but whatever it was prompted India's Central Bureau of Investigation to assign a team of topflight investigators to try and track down Walcott. His trail led first to Europe again, then doubled back to Pakistan, where he showed up with a converted B-26 bomber shortly before last autumn's border war. The Pakistanis suspected that he was air-dropping watches and gold into India, but before they could interrogate him, Walcott skipped off, leaving the plane behind...