Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teams of WHO technicians are vaccinating Peruvian Indians, spraying Thai villages with DDT, training Pakistani girls in midwifery, teaching villagers in India to do a daily "twig-toothbrush" drill, using powdered charcoal as a dentifrice...
...pleased. The pact strengthens the Middle East's "northern tier" (the defense line from Turkey to Pakistan). Pakistan, hitherto isolated on the northern tier's right wing, exulted. "It's good to be a bridge instead of feeling like a chasm," said a Pakistan official. The Pakistani were talking of including Iran too, which like Turkey and Pakistan is Moslem but not Arab...
Advice from Nehru. Then came India, where Jawaharlal Nehru was conspicuously not at the airport when Hammarskjold's R.A.F. Argonaut touched down. Nehru, who claims to have arranged Peking's "acceptance" of the U.N. mission, was piqued by the inclusion of a Pakistani instead of an Indian adviser in Hammarskjold's entourage. Next day Hammarskjold had an interview with Nehru, who told him that by passing its "unfortunate resolution" the U.N. "had again crossed the 38th parallel." Unless Hammarskjold showed "humility" and was prepared to widen his discussions to embrace "a wider settlement," counseled Nehru...
...strolled past the soldiers to his Cadillac, his wife at his side. He got into the car, but was astonished when a couple of Pakistani generals shouldered his wife aside and got in behind him. "There is no room for you," the generals told Mrs. Ali. "You go straight home in another car and wait for your husband. We are taking him to the Governor General's palace." At the palace Ali was hustled protesting into an anteroom and was brusquely told: "Wait here...
...gang up on Ali. Ali flew home in a hurry. From Karachi airport Ali moved directly into conference with Ghulam Mohammad. "Reform your Cabinet," ordered Ghulam Mohammad, and Ali had to comply. Until the elections, which would show the U.S. which way its new ally was heading, the Pakistani to watch would be Governor General Ghulam Mohammad...