Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other reasons for his close supervision of the war. Misconduct of an operation in which so much U.S. aid was involved could expose the Kennedy administration to much unnecessary criticism. Thus when reports indicated that 75 per cent of the Indian army was stationed in the punjab on the Pakistani border, away from the Chinese front, Galbraith convinced the Indian generals that a different troop placement was in order...
...Rawalpindi last week to express chagrin over Pakistan's budding friendship with Red China, he got a quick and bitter taste of the nation's new mood. No fewer than five Chinese Communist delegations-including poets, pingpong players and trade officials-were getting the welcome treatment from Pakistani officials. Gleefully, the Pakistan press trumpeted the words of one visiting Chinese bard who wrote: "You are on the western coast of the sea and we are on the east. The tidal waves of the ocean roar, and intermingled, we can hear the sound of our heartbeat...
Behind Pakistan's new stance is growing pressure on Ayub by neutralist Pakistani politicians such as 35-year-old Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Emerging from sessions with Ayub and Bhutto, Ball declared that "we have a better understanding of each other's point of view." It was diplomatese for a stubborn deadlock. Although Ayub privately had made it clear that he will not sign any military pacts with China and wants to remain an ally of the West, he passed along word to his American guest that Pakistan is not about to back down...
...Pakistan, even as U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball was objecting to President Mohammed Ayub Khan's new commercial air pact with Peking, Pakistani and Red Chinese diplomats were negotiating a barter agreement last week. A Soviet mission flew into Ottawa to draw up an expanded trade treaty; last month Canada signed a $360 million wheat export deal with Red China. This month West Germany begins negotiating a trade treaty with Hungary...
After insisting that his own department is thoroughly integrated (which is more or less true), he set the tone for the conversation by describing a recent meeting with a Pakistani health official. "We could learn a great deal from those people," he began, his inflection reminding us that an honest person gives credit where it is due, even if he must praise an off-colored Asian tribe. "Do you know that their men and women never meet until they have to get married? Their society has no problems of immorality...