Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course of his tour of Asia last spring, Vice President Lyndon Johnson stopped on a Pakistani roadside to greet an impoverished, illiterate camel-cart driver who had a grin as wide as his handlebar mustache. A true Texan, the Vice President casually invited Bashir Ahmad to "come and see us, heah?" A Karachi columnist picked up the invitation and ran with it: "My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He'll stay at the Waldorf-Astoria." Almost before Johnson could say L.B.J., he realized that his invitation had been accepted, and he was stuck with it. Last week Bashir jetted into...
Plainly miffed that the U.S. is providing the Pakistani Air Force with modern F-104 jets armed with air-to-air missiles, Nehru sniffed that Ayub had better think twice before attacking India. "A country which is economically strong can always defend itself against any military might." explained Nehru with more vehemence than logic, "and a few fighter aircraft received from the U.S. after adopting blackmailing tactics will not help Pakistan, which has made very little economic progress since...
...With Pakistani troops still holding part of Kashmir, Nehru roared, "there can be no question of a plebiscite. Talk of a plebiscite has now become a joke." Furthermore, he said, Kashmir was just a Pakistani ploy to divert attention from its failure to improve the lot of its people: "Even if there were no Kashmir question, Pakistan would create some other issue to keep this hate campaign against India going...
...York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...
Brains & Backbone. Next morning, after only two hours of sleep, Ayub showed up at 9 a.m. to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then checked in at the White House for a long, serious talk with the President. This time, he came bearing gifts: two Pakistani rugs for the President, a painting for Mrs. Kennedy, a doll for Caroline and two silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon...