Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from North Africa and Egypt to the Port of Suez, where they crowd on boats going to the Port of Jedda and then take buses to Mecca. Many come from Turkey, Iran and Syria in packed buses across desert roads. Thousands fly from East Asia: India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. And Moslems from America come over on chartered flights scheduled specially for the pilgrimage...
...Simons and Pilbeam are right, man's roots have been pushed even further back. Dating techniques have established beyond doubt that Ramapithecus?whose remains have turned up in India, Pakistan, East Africa, the Middle East and Central Europe?was alive and well at least 14 million years...
...continuing search. Prevented by war from continuing their work in Ethiopia, Johanson and Taieb plan to look for relics of early man in Arabia, where geological and climatic conditions are similar to those in the Afar region where Lucy was found. Pilbeam will soon go back to Pakistan in search of "new surprises." Simons is heading for Egypt in search of fossils that could enable him to trace man's roots back beyond Dryopithecus...
...workaday achievements, the I.L.O. has been successful. It won the NObel Peace Prize on its 50th anniversary in 1969 for its wide-ranging efforts to upgrade the lot of the world's workers. It is involved in vocational training in India and Morocco, management development in Pakistan and Tanzania; it provides technical assistance in building work forces for developing nations that lack economic expertise. The I.L.O. has made 152 recommendations to set international labor standards for working conditions, hours and vacations, and has begun moving on such newer issues as occupational disease and sex discrimination in jobs. I.L.O. specialists helped...
...brass joined in supporting the treaty, including Vice Admiral Robert L.J. Long, deputy chief of naval operations (he also read a supporting statement from his boss, Admiral James Holloway III, who was on an official visit to India, Iran and Pakistan), and Lieut. General D.P. McAuliffe, commander of U.S. forces in the Canal Zone...