Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Theoretical Physicists Steven Weinberg, then-Higgens Professor of Physics, and Pakistani physicist Adbus Salam predicted the location and weight of the W and Z particles as early as 1967. Weinberg, Salam, and current Higgins Professor of Physics Scheldon L. Glashow shared the Nobel Prize in 1979 for their work on the unification theories. "If Rubbia had not confirmed the existence of the W particle, theoretical physicists would have been running around emitting sharp cries," Weinberg, who now teaches at the University of Texas, said yesterday...
...when the army consisted of 100,000 troops, large numbers of soldiers have deserted to the rebel side, and 15,000 to 20,000 more have been killed. Today only 30,000 soldiers remain in the Afghan army, and their loyalty to the Soviets is dubious. According to high Pakistani government officials, the Soviets have taken some 5,000 teen-age volunteers for extensive military training in the Soviet Union. The goal: to develop an officer cadre for a revitalized Afghan army that could presumably maintain control if and when Soviet forces pull...
Base camp for the project's 60 European, 45 Pakistani and 1,000 Sudanese employees is a prefabricated village erected at the juncture of the Sobat and White Nile rivers. Jokingly referred to as "Sobat Club Med," it boasts an airstrip, swimming pool, hospital, club and a French school with 40 European children. Cheese and fruits are imported from France. Says Christian Coupechoux, the project director: "Sometimes we run out of beer and whisky, but we never run out of wine." Still, life is grim. Armed bandits, holdovers from the Sudan civil war of 1955-72, harass workers. Illness...
...jailed and tortured without trial or charges, while others have simply disappeared. Last year Zia fired 19 Supreme Court and provisional high court judges after they refused to endorse Zia's "constitutional order." This so-called order outlaws all rival political parties and enables the President to amend the Pakistani constitution at will. Yet in light of this record, Zia insists--with a straight face, no less--that he is still dedicated to his five-year-old pledge of restoring a democratic government. In a recent interview with the Christian Science Monitor. Zia explains that he's still "looking...
Despite Zia's actual rule by terror instead of mandate, Reagan still reaffirms U.S. support for his regime in the form of 40 F16 jets and $3.2 billion in military aid over the next six years. Reagan's recent rendezvous with the Pakistani dictator explicitly reveals his eagerness to distort and ignore reality in order to preserve a clicked belief that all anti-Communist leaders share the same values as the United States. For example, only a day before Zin's visit, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reviewed evidence indicating that Pakistan has continued its efforts to develop nuclear weapons...