Word: annexation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remain in Bangladesh through the fighting are being inducted into the new administration and taking over as soon as areas are liberated. Actually, India's recognition came earlier than planned. One reason was to circumvent a charge reportedly budding in the U.N. that India had joined the battle to annex the province to India. Another was to enable the Bangladesh government to assume charge as soon as large chunks of territory were liberated by the army. Since New Delhi does not want to be accused of having exchanged West Pakistani colonialism for Indian colonialism, it is expected to lean over...
...18th century, the Mogul Empire was in decline, and rebellious armies under Hindu and, later, Sikh leadership had begun to pull it apart. The British finished the job, and as they began to annex great swatches of the old Mogul Empire, England's soldiers and administrators unwittingly opened the way for a dramatic Hindu renaissance. The first British conquest was the vast state of Bengal, or what is now India's West Bengal state and East Pakistan. As shrewd and energetic traders, Bengal's Hindus had close ties with the British, and they naturally found positions...
...telling Israel precisely how to behave. "I recall what Dean Rusk said to me in 1968," Riad told Scott, "when I asked him about the U.S. position on withdrawal by Israel. He said, 'There is no doubt that we don't want any country to annex territory of another country. This is our policy, so the Israelis should no doubt withdraw from your land.' I replied, 'Why, then, don't you make a public statement? That's all we want.' Mr. Rusk said, 'We are a superpower. We are not Upper Volta...
...long ago Radcliffe was simply the "Harvard annex," and we've hardly come all that far since. The Committee on the Status of Women recently reported that women-both faculty and students-feel they are "intruders in a male institution." Such a feeling is hardly surprising, shared as it is by many Harvard officials who protest against educating women at the "expense" of men. Sadly enough, it is not unlikely that the Harvard dean who described Radcliffe alumnae as "bright, well-educated, but relatively dull housewives" was expressing the feelings of many of his colleagues as well...
However, large numbers of Chinese Nationalist troops supported by the United States remained after 1962, along with Thai and South Vietnamese troops. The CIA, whose active participation in fighting the Communist forces of the Pathet Lao is barely disguised, now goes under the name USAID Annex...