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...places as Abidjan, Amman, Bali, Bangkok, Djakarta, Monrovia and Dacca. The formula-an oasis in the ham-and-egg-less desert-has proved so successful that last week workmen were busy with major expansions of six InterContinental hotels. Completely new additions to the chain were rising at Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Nicaragua's Managua, and Auckland, N.Z. This month the company will break ground in Manila, and architects are drafting plans for hotels in Victoria Falls and Lusaka in Zambia, and Nairobi, Kenya. Inter-Continental is even represented behind the Iron Curtain with Zagreb's Esplanade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: To End Uncertain Comforts | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Minaret Exhaust. A prime example of what pleases is the $15 million Nuclear Research Center in West Pakistan, the first phase of which has just been completed in the sleepy village of Nilor, 17 miles north of the present capital, Rawalpindi, and close to Islamabad, the projected new capital for all Pakistan. Says an official of the Pakistan Institute of Science and Technology: "We asked him to create a design that would reflect our Islamic architecture with in the structural limitations posed by the reactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Mogul Modern | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The official version was that the wily, dapper Bhutto, at 38 one of Ayub's youngest Cabinet ministers in terms of age but the oldest in tenure of office, had resigned for health reasons. Truth to tell, Bhutto had never felt better. As all Rawalpindi knew, Bhutto had in fact been given a medical discharge by Ayub because he had become "inflexible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: A Medical Discharge | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...visiting Communist Chinese President Liu Shao-chi was concerned. But President Mohammed Ayub Khan, his host, seemed to be having second thoughts last week as Pakistanis gave Liu, 68, and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, 65, the headiest welcome ever accorded state visitors to their country. After tumultuous greetings in Rawalpindi (TIME, April 1), perhaps 1,000,000 people poured into the streets of Lahore, the old Mogul capital, sprinkling rose water into the path of the Chinese, heaping flower petals on Liu's car, shouting "Long live Pakistan-China friendship!" It was the greatest celebration since Independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: A Bellyful of What? | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...replenish Ayub's stores, he turned to Red China, whose leaders were happy to turn a political profit. No sooner had the tank-and-jet performance completed last week's "Pakistan Day" celebrations than the Chinese collected the first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days of talks and ceremonies. They were swept through Rawalpindi in a bubble-topped yellow Daimler amid flower-throwing crowds that accorded the Chinese the warmest welcome since Sheik Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," visited two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Collectors of a Debt | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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