Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conductors and hospital orderlies. They are jammed in ramshackle Harlems like London's Notting Hill and Birmingham's Balsall Heath, and are frequently victimized by their own countrymen who arrived earlier. Pakistan's High Commissioner in Britain complained recently that London taxi drivers were "kidnaping" Pakistani newcomers at the airport and selling them into "slavery" to other established Pakistanis who paid the taxi fares...
...Most frontier areas can be reached from the Indian side only by muleback or helicopter. India's defensive position would be far better if it were to make common cause with Pakistan, but Menon sneers at the suggestion. Because Pakistan is allied with the West, he argues, Indian-Pakistani cooperation "would plunge us right in the middle of the cold war." Partly because of Menon's attitude, the Pakistanis have lately begun talking about a deal with Red China...
...nine-year-old Pakistani girl who came down with fever soon after she reached Bradford, northern England's wool capital, seemed to have malaria. After she died. Pathologist Norman Ainley did an autopsy to make sure. He was unprepared for the real cause of death: smallpox. In quick succession, the Bradford area produced eleven more smallpox cases among newly arrived Pakistanis and their contacts. Among them was Pathologist Ainley. He became the first patient to receive a new, experimental anti-smallpox drug-so new that doctors could not be sure how much to give him. But Dr. Ainley...
Last November smallpox erupted with more than usual violence in Karachi. It has killed at least 267 people and made many more sick. But not until five infected Pakistanis had flown the disease to England did Pakistani Health Minister, General Wajid Ali Burki, crack down on Karachi's sloppy vaccination and isolation practices. While Britons rushed for emergency vaccinations, health inspectors carted off newly-arrived Pakistanis' clothing for disinfection. Authorities in London sputtered that all the infected Pakistanis had "valid" vaccination certificates when they entered. But a Pakistani admitted that in his country these can easily be bought...
...Pakistani educators from the University of Dacca are visiting here to study student personnel services, in accordance with Pakistan's nation-wide program of school reforms...