Word: pakistani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early for TIME'S "Man of the Year" nominations, but surely deserving consideration are Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal and Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi for their crucial role in the release of the hostages held by the Hanafi gunmen...
Safe Bet. Bhutto's troubles are largely of his own making. While Indira Gandhi went down to honest defeat, the Pakistani Prime Minister is reaping the bitter fruits of what was almost certainly a dishonest victory. Bhutto had called elections for much the same reason as the Indian leader. Hand-picked by the generals after Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war over Bangladesh, he had ruled ever since under a state of emergency that, among other things, gagged the press and outlawed political assembly. Last January Bhutto called for elections to give his government a stamp...
...combination of the improved economy and a degree of timidity induced in the opposition by the period of repression to insure an easy victory. Such a victory would restore some vestige of legitimacy to Gandhi's regime in the eyes of the West, silencing the claim of Pakistani leaders that their nation is the "only democracy left in Southeast Asia," a claim that has annoyed the Prime Minister...
...when he was 38. In 1968, in what became known as his "River of Blood" speech, Powell first brought Britain's race question out of the limbo to which other politicians had tacitly consigned it. The Nationality Act, he argued, was flooding London and Midlands ghettos with Indian, Pakistani, African and West Indian immigrants, who could claim British citizenship on the basis of their Commonwealth status. Within 15 or 20 years, he declared, there would be a horde of 3.5 million coloreds in Britain, and one day they would precipitate a bloody race war. (In the nine years since...
...Pakistani Folk Artists at Kresge Auditorium, MIT, 7 p.m. Info...