Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roberto Galvadon. And at 9:30, the Grecian This Side of the River, featuring Nikos Koundouros. On Saturday, the Festival offers (by invitation only) the esteemed British film. The Angry Silence, with Guy Green and Richard Attenborough. This at 5:30 p.m. Later, at 7 (no invitation needed) the Pakistani movie. The Day Shall Dawn, starring Aaejay Kardar. And, at 9:30. Robert Bresson's The Pickpocket. Tickets at the Festival Office (129 Mt. Auburn Street) or at the Loeb...
...Money. Ayub has pushed through a land reform program, redistributing some 23% of Pakistani farmland to onetime tenant farmers. Karachi's teeming refugee slums have been razed; some 100,000 refugees from the bloody division of Pakistan and India were relocated in plain but clean modern colonies. No longer is "tea money" necessary to get in to see a government official. Ayub has made Pakistan's government the least corrupt of any nation on the Asian continent...
...Evil. The U.N. forces on the spot seemed paralyzed, even speechless. There were 300 Ghanaian troops, 55 Austrian hospital specialists and a company of Pakistani transport men in Bakwanga the day Kalonji brought his victims to town for their public beating; apparently they stood by helplessly, did not even report the incident to Leopoldville headquarters of U.N. Congo Chief Rajeshwar Dayal until four days later. Eleven hundred U.N. Ethiopian soldiers were in the area when Gizenga executed his 15 enemies; either they knew nothing of the killings or did nothing to stop them...
...local tribes and won British recognition in 1926. The Wall's grandfather enjoyed the title of Akhoond, a Persian word meaning religious teacher. But in the 20th century secular titles have displaced religious ones; the Wali of Swat, no longer Akhoond, is the only Wali among the Pakistani princes...
...acre oasis of mineral-rich soil and year-round sun, surrounded by the trackless wastes of the Colorado Desert. Irrigated by aqueducts from the Colorado River, this below-sea-level island in the desert yields $150 million-a-year worth of diversified agricultural products ranging from Syrian plumcots to Pakistani grapes, has nurtured a breed of rugged, Stetson-crowned farm millionaires. Last week, in a melee of millionaires, deputy sheriffs, pickets and Mexican braceros, labor violence reminiscent of the brawling 19303 erupted on the oasis...