Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the world, pro-Palestinian demonstrators conducted a campaign of violent protest. In Bangladesh, students stormed the Egyptian ambassador's residence and held him at gunpoint for eight hours. In Paris, a bomb exploded in a Jewish student restaurant, injuring 26, and two explosions in Israel killed one bystander and wounded 28. Still another bomb damaged the Israeli mission in Ankara. Even in Peking, a band Palestinian students marched on of the Egyptian embassy, smashed windows, tore down a portrait of Sadat and injured several Chinese soldiers...
...Behind the resolution: Zambia, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Gabon, Jamaica and Nigeria...
...crisis area is vast. It includes India, once again the world's most populous democracy, but a politically divided and troubled nation with a squabbling, ineffective government; impoverished Bangladesh; unstable Pakistan, where an inept military regime is currently considering the execution of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the autocratic but brilliant politician who rebuilt his country after its disastrous defeat by India in 1971. To the northeast is Afghanistan, where a pro-Soviet junta that seized power last year is trying to rule over one of the world's most ungovernable tribal societies. In the west...
THIS HANDSOME four-disc set would look classy on the stuffiest of record shelves--I keep mine next to my Concert for Bangladesh, the bright orange sets off the rich navy nicely. The producers have thoughtfully included a slick album of color photos from the concert. The back cover contains a tasteful reproduction of Picasso's Three Musicians...
...Clark, the trials were a culmination of his three-year assignment as TIME's Moscow bureau chief. In his 16 years with the magazine, he has covered scenes of combat in Viet Nam, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Bangladesh. But Moscow is different. Here the struggle between the dissidents and the authorities is subtle and complex, with many diverse protesters...