Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since President Mohammed Ayub Khan is a rational man, not given to fits of pique, observers could only attribute the odd step to the arcane maneuvering of that powerful pack of officials that has risen around Ayub seeking a new direction for Pakistan. That direction is due East-toward Peking. The group, which occupies many of the most important posts in the civil service and reaches into the Cabinet itself, is determined to keep the war going in India, and sees closer ties with neighboring Red China as a solution to Pakistan's foreign policy problems...
...attitudes. Bhutto, an intimate friend of Indonesia's slick, pro-Peking Foreign Minister Subandrio, loses no opportunity to sneer at the U.S. effort in Viet Nam. Gauhar takes a similar tack, and has the means to propagate it: direct orders go out daily from his office to the Pakistan press, spelling out how stories-and headlines-should be played, guiding editors on the proper emphasis to be given government announcements...
Parallel to all this has been a steady drumfire of anti-Americanism in the government-controlled papers. Karachi's daily Dawn suggested that Ambassador McConaughy had advance knowledge of an Indian, plan "to invade Pakistan" since "the ambassador's wife and son left Pakistan two days before the attack." In fact, McConaughy has no son, and his wife was in Karachi when the fighting began. A reporter's phone call could have quickly ascertained what really happened: the McConaughys' daughter had left town-to attend school in Europe...
Social contacts between American and Pakistani officials have all but ceased. "The climate is bad for it," one shamefaced Pakistani told a former American friend. In fact, U.S.-Pakistan relations have never been so poor at any time in the nation's 18-year history. Unless by some miracle a solution is found to satisfy Pakistan on the Kashmir problem, relations are hardly likely to improve. Ayub has told the U.N. to produce a satisfactory solution within three to five months-or else. Whether the hawks around him will give him even that much time is open to question...
...Pontiff and President on U.S. soil was expected to last about half an hour, but it was unthinkable that a normally voluble Italian and an incurably loquacious Texan could stick to schedule-so the two men, assisted by two interpreters, talked on for 46 minutes about Viet Nam, India, Pakistan, the Dominican Republic, the conquest of hunger. Paul praised recent U.S. efforts to advance the cause of civil rights. Johnson thought that the Pope's visit would provide a much needed stimulant to the prestige and power of the U.N. "It has been to me a very inspiring conversation...