Word: sardar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ayub not to trust any agreement signed by Nehru, because he "knows how to get out of commitments far more binding and rigid." Who was the opposition chieftain? None other than Ayub's own younger brother, Sardar Bahadur Khan...
...system that is more genuinely democratic than any thing envisaged by Ayub. The great majority of all elected candidates are former members of banned parties. At least 100 belonged to the old Moslem League, whose leader in West Pakistan is none other than Ayub's elder brother. Sardar Bahadur Khan. Moslem Leaguer Bahadur is outspokenly critical of his brother's contention that political parties, when restored, should be confined to "like-minded people" within the National Assembly, where his Moslem Leaguers will probably have a two-thirds majority...
...choice of gifts, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan scored a clear victory: he gave Jackie Kennedy a handsome ten" year-old bay gelding named Sardar, a trained jumper ideal for the fox hunting that she loves to pursue in the Virginia countryside. At Pakistan's ceremonious Lahore Horse and Cattle Show, she entered beside Ayub in a gold-trimmed carriage drawn by six steeds and escorted by 40 mounted horsemen in red coats. As 40,000 Pakistanis cheered, Jackie saw camels dance and salaam, prize cattle parade, horses two-step to drums. Eying a water buffalo that Ayub...
Kennedy said: "I'm glad you can appreciate him. I'd much rather have Sardar." Where Jackie had thrilled to the beauty of India's Taj Mahal, built three centuries ago by the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan, as a memorial to his wife, in Pakistan she was excited by the glitter of the 80-acre Shalimar Gardens, built by the same ruler as a memorial to his father. There she strolled along a red-carpeted walk beside glistening pools, while balloons floated about her, fountains shimmered and 7,000 guests looked on. "All my life...
...Nepal's Mahendra and Morocco's Hassan II. Princes: Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk and Yemen's Seif el Islam el Hassan. Foreign Ministers: Guinea's Beavogui Lansana, Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali...