Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explains blandly, "I am a dictator by the will of the people." Southern Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith, busy developing a political hammer lock to keep some 250,000 whites in power over the nation's 4,000,000 blacks, insists that what he is about is "responsible democracy." Pakistan's Ayub Khan had no sooner seized power in a military coup d'état seven years ago than he set his nation upon the arbitrary road of "basic democracy...
There are some dubious democracies that are evolving toward more freedom; unlike being pregnant, it is possible to be a little bit democratic. Perhaps the textbook example of how a benign dictatorship can encourage democracy is Ayub Khan, who remains a military strongman but in seven years has moved Pakistan to the point where he himself ran scared for President in this year's election-and against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social...
Some marginal agreements were signed. Russia promised a loan of $50 million for oil-well machinery and extended for another five years its oil-exploration project in Pakistan. On the economic side, trade between the two countries will be trebled, with Russia exchanging autos, tractors and road-building machinery for Pakistan's jute, raw cotton, hides and tea. Next week Ayub Khan continues his tour by jetting to Washington for conferences with President Lyndon Johnson and a five-day visit...
...years of existence, the Central Treaty Organization has never been much of an alliance. One of the original members, Iraq, soon dropped out. As others-Iran, Pakistan and Turkey -became more chummy with Moscow, CENTO's essential purpose as a military shield against Communist aggression lost its urgency. Nevertheless, alliances seem to have a life of their own, and last week delegates from the CENTO nations gathered solemnly in Teheran for the 13th ministerial meeting. With the opening speeches out of the way, the delegates spent two days composing a communique that satisfied no one, yet had the sound...
...Russians and French are technically correct in not paying their U.N. dues for the peace-keeping operations in Israel and the Congo, the U.N. mediator between India and Pakistan said last night...