Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Voice of Thunder," as it became known in the pre-independence days of Free Bangladesh Radio, rolled across the multitude squatting on the dry yellow grass of the Dacca race course. "If the people of Bangladesh don't want me to contest the elections, then I don't want to sit in the National Assembly. Any one of you can go and sit there instead of me. Shall I contest the election? Should I? If you want me to contest, then raise your hand. Raise both hands to show you want me." Nearly half a million pairs...
...March 7. Opposition parties, in fact, will probably win only about 50 of the Assembly's 300 seats. But in his reign so far as Prime Minister by acclamation, Mujib has had much less success in moving his country toward internal peace and prosperity. Born in bloodshed, Bangladesh continues to bleed, both literally and metaphorically. Political murders among warring nationalist factions number in the hundreds, and the new nation, with a population of 75 million-it is the eighth largest in the world-suffers from severe problems in food, housing, transportation and industry...
...quite sure what they are going to do. Our relations have been up and down. When I became Prime Minister there were small indications of improvement. Then came the Cultural Revolution, the attack on the Indian embassy, and there was a setback. Things were again improving, and then came Bangladesh. Now we are back to Square 1. They say that the Soviet Union and India together are attempting to encircle China. This is utter nonsense. We are not attacking anyone, and I don't think the Soviet Union wants war with anyone. Then there is the matter of Tibet...
...specialized agencies, including the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization; member nations are assessed these mandatory sums every year by each agency individually. Eleven other agencies, notably UNICEF, are financed by voluntary contributions. Biggest program in this category: the U.N.'s emergency relief to Bangladesh, which this year totaled $234 million, of which the U.S. has pledged fully...
...advising its leaders in advance of his trip to Peking and of the potential impact of his New Economic Policy. He had lost the good will of India by siding with Pakistan in their brief war, and he had waited five months to recognize "the infant, struggling nation of Bangladesh that has suffered so much for so long." Nixon had also "defied the conscience of mankind by giving up U.S. opposition to racism in Southern Africa," and he had "used the power of his office to bully and intimidate Latin American nations...