Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he earnestly apologized to U.S. Ambassador Walter McConaughy, Gauhar saw to it that the apology was not mentioned in the Pakistani press. Shortly after, when Ayub telephoned President Johnson to smooth relations with Washington and advise the White House of the imminent ceasefire, the unhappy hawks swapped facts in the press handouts: the announcement made it sound as if L.B.J. had humbly phoned Ayub, instead of vice versa...
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...
...Fazilka, a farm town south of Lahore, a 100-man Indian company politely asked a band of 1,000 Pakistani marauders to withdraw. At that, claimed the outraged Indians, the Pakistanis opened fire with their rifles. Out numbered 10 to 1, the Indians had no choice but to fight. They killed 59 Paks, while losing only eleven men themselves...
...tell who was the true aggressor. Clearly, both India and Pakistan had a lot to gain - and little to lose - by trying to grab more territory while they could. Old U.N. hands recalled that it took 123 days for the Suez cease fire to really take effect. The Indo-Pakistani cooling-off period was likely to take just as long - or longer...
...raucous of Peking's Asian allies was North Korea's Kim Il Sung. No longer. Since early this year, Kim has been steering an increasingly independent course. To Moscow's delight and Peking's chagrin, Kim & ; Co. chose to keep silent in the current Indo-Pakistani crisis; even over the explosive issue of Viet Nam, North Korea has been less vitriolic than Peking wishes...