Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Fatima Jinnah, 74, spinster sister and confidante of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, longtime Pakistani nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...
...British have always been stuffy about race, but the stuffiness has grown with the influx in recent years of some 625,000 immigrants. Whether a man is a blue-black African, a coffee-colored Jamaican, an Aryan Pakistani or even a Cypriot of Greek descent, he is considered "colored" in Britain - and almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt...
Practically no jobs at all are open to dark-skinned skilled workers. "The men in this shop do not work with coloreds," a West Indian cabinetmaker was told. A Pakistani was refused a job as a gas pipefitter because "colored people can't work in white homes." The applicant for another job was turned away with an even simpler explanation: "No black bastards wanted...
...Jones" does not know what is happening because he sees it as an isolated problem of a few "trouble-makers"; his widest vision may grasp an idea of some sinister underground conspiracy. An uncanny international cooperation has formed at the LSE, with veterans of Alabama, the anti-apartheid movement, Pakistani politics, and Greek student strikes working easily with British students educated by the Aldermaston marches and left university politics. But the "conspiracy" is the result of a universal experience: the established authorities are making terrible mistakes...
...able to predict that the advance would stop short of a full-scale invasion. Tension rose in the State Department as the Indians suffered defeat after defeat, but the Chinese eventually halted almost precisely where the U.S. experts said they would. In 1965, in the midst of the Indian-Pakistani war over Kashmir, China threatened intervention against India. Whiting calmly pronounced the threat nothing more than a bluff-and so it proved...