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...massive Communist-organized May Day parade in New Delhi was washed out by unseasonal rains, and in Calcutta two rival Communist processions ran into one another en route to separate rallies. In the resulting battle with bamboo staves, homemade explosives and brickbats, 200 were injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHERE ARE THE TANKS OF YESTERYEAR? | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...brought to the troubled and geographically divided land by the imposition of martial law. Under fear of harsh penalties, Pakistan's other politicians, including Bhashani's chief Bengali rival, moderate Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have kept silent. Not Bhashani, who continues to receive newsmen and followers at his bamboo-walled hut. "What have I to fear?" he asked TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, as he adjusted his soiled straw skull cap and straightened the green sweater that he wore inside out. "I would welcome being hanged for my people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Prophet of Violence | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...continued to chat mechanically. I've learned how to do that with her. I can think about things. Johnson's boy said his patrol caught a young Vietnamese girl smuggling information in a bamboo shoot inserted in her vagina. She was on the way to the Viet Cong. Gooks he calls them. The Gooks had just murdered some Christian missionaries, so there was considerable ill feeling at the time. His patrol raped the girl. Then they have some guy shove an M-16 up her vagina and keep his finger on the trigger. My wife works for planned parenthood...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...visitors often found the sights and sounds of Viet Nam more moving than words. On their field trip, they clambered into cockpits of Air Force Phantom fighter-bombers at Cam Ranh Bay, 200 miles northeast of Saigon, and drank rice wine through bamboo reeds with Montagnard tribesmen in the Central Highlands. In Pleiku, they visited a hospital filled with Vietnamese civilians who had been injured by Viet Cong rockets. Circling in helicopters, they watched an allied air strike against the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...people died in disorders in West and East Pakistan. Most of the trouble was in the East, where mob rule shook Dacca, the largest city, and army troops with automatic weapons confronted demonstrators who shrilled: "Rise! Rise!" Scores were injured by bayonets and flying lathis, the steel-tipped bamboo sticks used by the police, and attempts at curfews proved useless. But when Ayub's message flashed across the country, the mood altered instantly. In Karachi and other cities, crowds poured into the streets to dance in jubilation at the news. In Rawalpindi, a candlelight procession took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: PAKISTAN'S AYUB STEPS DOWN | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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