Word: bangladesh
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When India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi decided to dispense with the irksome processes of democracy and arrogate all power to herself in June, she was able to take a few cues from her next-door neighbor. Last January Sheik Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh, impatient with the plodding progress and growing anarchy of his impoverished country, pushed legislation through Parliament changing the government to a presidential system giving him enlarged powers. The move surprised some and saddened others, since "Mujib" had long impressed observers as a man of reason and moderation as well as great courage...
Last week, accusing Mujib of ineffectual leadership, the armed forces seized the Bangladesh government in a predawn coup. The man the Bengalis called Bangabandhu (father of Bengal), who led the country to independence from Pakistan only four years ago, was killed and replaced by a longtime associate. Although communications with Dacca were cut shortly after the takeover and reports were sketchy, it was clear that the coup was bloody. In addition to Mujib, 55, Prime Minister Mohammed Mansoor Ali and two of Mujib's nephews were also killed. So reportedly were at least 200 other supporters. At week...
Islamic Republic. The first signs of trouble came when gunfire was heard near Mujib's house in Dacca. At 5:15 a.m., a Major Dalim announced over Radio Bangladesh that the armed forces had taken over and changed the country's name from the People's Republic of Bangladesh to the Islamic Republic of Bangladesh. The new President, he declared, would be Khandakar Moshtaque Ahmed, 56, who had been Minister of Foreign Trade and Commerce in Mujib's Cabinet. Dalim further announced that martial law, as well as a 24-hour curfew, had been proclaimed throughout...
...Durga Prasad Dhar, 57, Indian diplomat and Ambassador to Moscow, who negotiated New Delhi's 1971 nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union and was a principal architect of India's military intervention in neighboring East Pakistan's civil war, which led to the creation of independent Bangladesh; following a heart attack; in New Delhi...
What to do with it all? AID officials will divert some of the goods to nations that the U.S. is still assisting, not to expand programs but to fill existing commitments. Foodstuffs, mainly rice, wheat and corn, will go primarily to Bangladesh, India and perhaps Egypt. But industrial goods pose a much tougher problem. They were intended for the sophisticated economic base that the U.S. wanted to build in South Viet Nam until the very end. (The Mayaguez, for instance, was unloading 3,000 tons of industrial goods-just what is still not clear-when it hastily had to leave...