Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign correspondent and being sent to The Journal's Hong Kong Bureau. It was in Hong Kong that Kann first received wind of an impending struggle between India and Pakistan, Stationing himself in the troubled area. Kann's tile forecast the India-Pakistan War and the founding of Bangladesh. In recognition of his reporting he received the 1972 Pulitzer for International Correspondence...
...years he has brought forth a series of buildings that every intelligent architect must reckon with. Among the most recent are the Salk Institute at La Jolla, Calif. (1965), the lately opened Phillips Exeter Library, the Kimbell Museum and two unfinished complexes in Asia-the capitol for Dacca in Bangladesh and the Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India...
...this was more than apparent last week, as the party held its 74th annual meeting at Salt Lake, a desolate flat on the edge of Calcutta. Eighteen months ago, the flat was jammed with thousands of Bangladesh refugees. Last week between 30,000 and 40,000 party regulars met in a $700,000 tent city as princely as a Mogul encampment. Party Leader Indira Gandhi was housed in an elegant $107,000 "hut," which aides hastened to explain would serve as a guest house for a housing project to be built on the site. Nonetheless, New Delhi newsmen were stunned...
...experience what he calls "the natural round of life." Because so many deaths in the U.S. now occur in hospitals or nursing homes, young people have no opportunity to experience it firsthand. "The only deaths they are exposed to are in TV dramas, or those in Viet Nam or Bangladesh-never those of average Americans," says Fulton. Another reason for student interest, according to University of Maryland Health Education Professor Daniel Leviton, "is the chance to ventilate their fears about death...
...Smallpox was the first disease shown to be preventable by vaccination, but doctors are still searching for an effective way of treating it when it does erupt-usually among the unvaccinated. A team of Bangladesh and Canadian physicians believe that they have now found a way. They report in Lancet that cytosine arabinoside (ara-C), a drug known to check the multiplication of several viruses that have DNA cores, may be potent against variola, the virus of smallpox. During the April-May epidemic in Bangladesh, they gave ara-C by continuous-drip injection to nine victims. Seven made rapid recoveries...