Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India died of a heart attack last night in Tashkent, U.S.S.R., hours after signing a limited agreement on Kashmir with Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan...
...Delhi, the Indians charge that Pakistan has received a $67 million loan from Peking to rebuild its shattered armed forces, claim that a daily air shuttle from Sinkiang into Pakistan is carrying Red Chinese small arms to outfit three new Pakistani divisions. "There is an almost poisonous atmosphere between the two countries," said a top Shastri aide last week. "To expect any dramatic results [in Tashkent] seems to be rather impractical." Since the heart of the Indo-Pakistani dispute remains Kashmir, a problem which neither the U.N. nor the big powers have been able to arbitrate successfully for 18 years...
Mayors everywhere are expected to be boosters, and Tashkent's Hunuddin Asamov is no exception. Last week he was busy extolling the tourist virtues of his ancient city in Soviet Central Asia to a pair of wary travelers: Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. "We have planted parks and gardens, over 2,000,000 trees, 1,500,000 shrubs and 80 million flowers," wrote Asamov in an open letter. "Moreover, we Uzbeks have a saying: If two neighbors have an argument, go to the third, and you will always...
...been a conspicuous absentee from Lyndon Johnson's last three dinners for foreign dignitaries. Though Fulbright returned to the U.S. Dec. 13 from a less-than-triumphant trip Down Under (TIME, Dec. 13), the Arkansas Democrat was not even sent an R.S.V.P. to the White House banquets for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson or West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard...
...Africans and Asians will vote together on such issues as decolonization, racial discrimination and economic development. On the major issues of war and peace, they will leave the decisions to the big powers. The only role the U.N. took in war and peace this year was over India and Pakistan, and there it was a tacit agreement between Russia and the West that cut off arms and supplies to the combatants and thus quelled the fighting...