Word: bahini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet proposal for a worldwide nuclear-disarmament conference. The Security Council may also take up the smoldering conflict between India and Pakistan, and China may be hard put to explain its support of the Pakistan government to the Third World countries that support India and the Mukti Bahini rebels of East Pakistan. Another thorny issue to be debated is the security provided for U.N. delegates by the U.S. The Soviets have been so harassed by the extremist Jewish Defense League that they have threatened to leave New York and to try to take the U.N. with them...
...fighting is expected to increase sharply in the next few weeks, with the end of the monsoon rains. Both the Pakistani army, most of whose 80,000 troops are bunkered down along the Indian border, and the Mukti Bahini, with as many as 60,000 guerrilla fighters, have said that they will soon open major new military offensives...
Plentiful Arms. On a recent trip deep into Mukti Bahini territory, TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin found an almost surreal scene. He cabled...
...Mukti Bahini captain told me that the Bengali rebels are following the three-stage guerrilla warfare strategy of the Viet Cong, and are now in the first phase of organization and staging hit-and-run attacks. So far the guerrillas in the captain's area of operations have lost about 50 men, and larger army attacks are expected. But the Mukti Bahini plan to mount ambushes and avoid meeting army firepower headon...
...week, Yahya also announced that the National Assembly would be convened in December, immediately following by-elections in the East to fill the Assembly seats vacated by disqualified Awami Leaguers. With the main party banned from participation, however, the election is likely to provoke more violence. Already the Mukti Bahini have vowed to treat candidates as dalals ("collaborators...