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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, ·· 1959.
16-hours-a-day live wire pushes a rising nation.
by GEOFFREY THURSBY
Karachi.
PRESIDENT AYUB KHAN, of Pakistan-his men call him Chief-said straight away: "Work is the only thing that will solve Pakistan's prob- lems-work and more work.”
I was talking to the man who a year ago next month threw out Pakilan's squabbling, politicians and as Commander-in-Chief seized power and suspended the Constitution.
Todes, with
Awakening nation looking viction, not out of weak to him as a last hope to ness. He believes that the lend them out of a twilight way of the sword is not the of inefficiency and currup way to prosperity. Lion, tall. distinguished
He said: "I am not in- Ayub Khan is not offering terested in any sort of ex gold from heaven for pansion outside Pakistan. everyone for nothing.
That is hist strength.
11
That is why progress Pakistan is now beginning to muve at a fast rate;
16 Ayub Klun works hours a day Officers and officials ronid him similar
is Pakistan
my
job.
I want to wold the country into prosperity.
official or a politician had merits or not.
without "They voted knowing what they were doing. Because they had no understanding outside their village they were the tims of anyone who wanted to trick them,
vic-
"We are now working on VILLAGE VOTES
a five-year plan, at the end of which 1 hope Pakistan Helf-sufficient in will, be food."
hour. The example of Ayub has a Tormidable work is spreading. You can record in his 11 months of see it in the way workmen office for carrying out what are buckling down to their he plans to do. jobs.
PROBLEMS
been
For 12 years-ever since mdependence --- old-guard politicians have talking about land reform. After so many years of but nothing has been done. inertia. Pakistan, with its Some
IN
of
6,000 families con-
population 85,000,000. trolled all of the country's
faring
tremendous agricultural land. problems.
They also controlled the received country's politics, so they The President. me in his office to talk were hardly likely to vote about the work he has to cut up their own land.
Ayul set already done and the bigger
experts to
"We decided that U vete had to be exercised at level, with the vilinge people voting for men they
knew.**
al!
Villagers will vote in November for councils the village level. Cities, which will be divided into small sections roughly the size of villages, will also.. vole for councils,
Beside the selected mem- bers there will be, nomi-
more
nated.members-not than one-third of the num- ber of men elected.
These councils will run the villages and cities-and from them tiers of govern- ment will be set up.
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task still facing rim, study the position, decided
One of the President's When he stands up to on his plan, and last month shake lands-a strong and distribution began.
is his biggest problems risht arm and a strong By the end of next country's lack of education.
much of the. laul
Newspapers reach gripe suddenly appears' month taller than you expect from will be in the hands of the more than 10 per cent of
President's the
tenants picture landlords'
and the people and the Pakis The landlords tan radio station cannot hanging on the walls. He peasants.
acres of tops the six-foot mark.
whole country. cover the sides of India.
may keep 500
both
trans-
He dresses well and at irrigated hand-or 1,000 divided us it is on 51 (Sandburst 1928) there eres of non-irrigated land. For loss of their land are leeks of grey in his hair and moustache.
they will be handed 25-year mitter has been ordered Govern- and the radio will be used interest bearing- ment bends,
He speaks softly, with an ocezzion! goldier's eusk, but got the impression
that Geral Ayub could be BOLD REFÒRM
a very tingh man indeed if he chose.
· 5-YEAR PLAN
He has chosen not
A powerful new
to keep the people of the villages informed.
Pakistan is certainly a big job and everyone in the!
a bold reform country krows in his heart scheme. Ayub believes it--including President Ayub this is the last will transform his country. that "Dut and is not the only chance. Failure is ruin.
to thing," he said.
be too hard on the currupt change is needed."
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Ayub has set up an ex- pert committee scientific development.
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He sat forward in his leather-backed chair and said: "Then there is our call big scheme which we our basic democracies. This is the most important of all. It aims at government by the people in a new way
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Their Last Flight Over
London: The Two Most
Famous Names
ILLUSTRIOUS PAIR: SPITFIRE AND HURRICANE
Wings
By PETER WOON
On
OVER London's rooftops recently the saviours of freedom
departed from the skies they conquered. For the last time, a Hurricane and a Spitfire led the Battle of Britain flypast that annually climaxes our national thanksgiving for the impossible victory achieved 19 years ago,
Then it was that their pugnacious silhouettes, so familiar and so friendly to the anxious watchers below, tore down the
mighty Luftwaffe and brought immortality to] The Few.
The rodeo steers
Lemoncove, California. THE secret is out. The
ferocious steer that the cowboys rope in rodeos are not nearly so "rough-riding" Western fierce as they may ap-
"I do not believe it is pear.
M fact, the
possible for people to be chances are that the
but
horned
are
not
all that tough
221 carly
life.
creative without freedom, steer may be wearing stubby horns, or they are de being retired from rodeo use
de "falsies" the form of mocracy that you have in that is. Britain was not working here at present,
"We found that ut vil lage level (85 per cent of Pakistan's people live in villages) the people knew if an official was good or bad, indifferent, or lazy. But beyond their village they had no idea if an
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age fighter, the Lightning. Hurt
ing along at 1,500 miles. an hour, packed full of secret black Then the fighter aircraft boxes, it is more a brother to was a vital weapon of war. Bloodhound then to those sim It still is. But oh, how it ple little planes of 1940. has changed!
The other day, as the
Tenacity
LIGHTNING
The Inheritor
into radar control, and with the engine running.
He will get a "tele-scramble," and about three minutes later. he will be nearing 30,000ft, and ready for action.
He can pretty well fold his erms and wait for it. An auto. airborne interception attack sight
matle
.
Hurricane and the Spitfire Lightning is. Indeed, a man- made their final bow. the ned missile. Only the qualities radar and pilet's mine Hunter jets that fol- demanded of to flyers have not ystem (Alrpass) scan the skies milas ahead both horizontally lowed them in the flypast changed much since the days of and vertically. There's the
The Few.
target! The radar beam locks were recognised as virtual. ly obsolescent.
*Most of all," Bay's Wing on, Commander Roland Beamont, It tracks the enemy auto- "Now in Fighter Command, the chief 'test-plot of "English Elec-matically, feeding into a cun-
the same "one needs close defence of our deterrent tric, H-bomber and Thor rocket bases naelly" is being steadily handed over to
90 που, Beamont is be exhi- the weapon that will
fatter perhaps, and his hair a bited before the marching little thinner than the 16-year- columns at House Guards Parade uld who went to France 20 Bloodhound, the anti-aircraft years ago, covered the Dunkirk missile.
returned to 87 evacuation, and
clolin Hurricane Squadron to Due Into service next year, ilve enemy aircroft in the Bottle however, is the RAF's missile- of Britain.
NS
Carlin
"How long do you expect me to put up with your brutality, Horace Jackson?"
puter which works out the ecrrect ecurse for the fighter to. follow to get into the best position for the final attack.
It presents Information to ensure the correct aiming of Firestreak alr-launched missiles.
Unseen
Automatically stil, Lightning meets in, the weapons are fired, and the aircraft breaks away. Possibly the pilot never even
"Looking back. It seems though we had time on
our hands in those days. With plenty of warning from - uces the enemy he is attacking. radar boys we would climb up
to a 20,000. Interception height.
Then he comes back to base
In about 15 mloutes, and it and lands on another automa- might be another' half an hour the fystem which can already; before we saw anything.
take him down to 150ft and will coon be able to bring him right down on the dock
"Then we just followed the leader in fanning out behind him as we attacked a bomber formation and picked our own, victim. Soon our fuel ran out and we headed for home.
This is the successor to the Hurricane and, the Sphäre. It offers greater range than the. radar-mited. Bloodhound con ever dos And far greater flexi-
"We rode a single engine, .bility. and eight machine guns, and it was a freo. and easy, existence You can send up a Lightning when we were on our Jackson. to have a loot of a muspicious op. there. We could do a vie- abreraft which Bloodhound can tory roll just for the hell of it, only destroy or, perhaps fatally, bo Lightnings can We were only playing around Ignore. with about £8,000 worth of hustled overseas for "bush fire” neroplane, so nobody minded" wars They can support the
Army
Now the fully equipped Light ning runs out at not less than £250,000. And with the enemy caning in very, very fast there len't much time.
That is why the traditions of Fighter Command, born 19 years ngo, are being carried on, Hurs ricane ami Spitfire and the man who flew them not a high stand- 1t the cold war ever hotel ard, Lightning, and the R.AT. up, then a Lightning pilot will slot of today mean to achieve be sitting in his cockpit, plugged Ahe immo qualition,
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