Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preoccupied with weighty matters involving Moscow and the Middle East. On the other hand, he may only have been a bit apprehensive about seeing India's proud, mercurial Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Their last meeting, which coincided with the start of a U.S. "tilt" toward Pakistan during the Bangladesh crisis of 1971, ended in mutual distrust. Mrs. Gandhi has since been known to turn livid at the very mention of Kissinger's name. Prospects for a successful encounter seemed dim after India's National Herald, on the day of Kissinger's arrival, published an interview with...
From New Delhi, the Secretary flew first to Dacca. There he conferred with Bangladesh Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman, who has expressed disappointment over the U.S.'s limited offer of food aid to his drought-stricken country...
...hunger; 10,000 of them die of starvation each week in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There are all too familiar severe shortages of food in the sub-Saharan Sahelian countries of Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta and Niger; also in Ethiopia, northeastern Brazil, India and Bangladesh. India alone needs 8 to 10 million tons of food this year from outside sources, or else as many as 30 million people might starve...
Food riots have become commonplace in vast sections of Bangladesh and India. "In the worst-affected areas, gruel kitchens have been opened that provide a watery mess of broken wheat, fragments of pumpkin and lentils," reports TIME New Delhi Correspondent James Shepherd. "Queues of sev eral hundred emaciated people at each kitchen get what is often no more than a quarter-pound of the gruel, and sometimes that is shared among six people. In one village, a shame faced elder confessed that Hindus were violating the ban on eating cows and were consuming dead cattle and buffaloes. 'What else...
Mayer called for the oil-producing nations to "make a special effort to help fellow Moslem countries--Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia," and said the Soviet Union should disclose its grain reserves...