Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, Christopher Soames, an avid pro-European who is Winston Churchill's son-in-law, De Gaulle-according to the British account-proposed that the two countries should have a summit meeting to talk over replacing the Common Market with a larger economic association run by a four-power inner directorate of Britain, France, West Germany and Italy. This grouping would also form the nucleus of an all-European defense system to replace U.S.-dominated NATO. After consulting his government, Soames replied that Britain found the suggestions "significant" and "far-reaching" -but refused to accept De Gaulle...
...shortly after Ayub had won a second presidential term in a surprisingly close election that pitted him against Fatima Jinnah-the sister of Pakistan's founder, Mohammed AH Jinnah-he began running into problems. Pakistan's small educated elite, shut out from power, began to turn against him, criticizing his arrogance and intolerance as well as his reluctance to delegate authority. There were increasingly bitter allegations of corruption, centering on his eldest son Gohar Ayub, who had risen from army captain to millionaire in six years. Ayub's reaction to all complaints was to impose tighter curbs...
Thus, after more than ten years in power, the 61-year-old President of Pakistan last week bowed to his conscience -and his critics-by declaring that he would step down at the end of his term next year. It was the decision of a concerned man, executed with the dignity and grace of the lifelong soldier that Ayub Khan is. Yet once again it underscored-in a world in which the people increasingly take to the streets-the fragility and vulnerability of all but the very strongest authority...
...last October, however, when civil disorders began to erupt on a wide scale, the opposition to Ayub was pushing far more substantive complaints. One had to do with Ayub's system of "basic democracy," which was really little more than constitutional window dressing to ensure his stay in power. Another was the resentment of the people of East Pakistan, 55% of the divided country's population, over what they felt to be the neglect of their interests by the central government...
...precise products and terms are so far uncertain; the Soviet Union, through European middlemen, is already purchasing sizable quantities of Peruvian fishmeal. But the meaning of the event was clear. Peru's Foreign Minister, Eduardo Mercado Jarrín, one of a spangle of generals who seized power last October, called the occasion "the end of an era in which our trade was channeled in only one direction...