Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a rigidly structured environment that Vilayat Khan learned his art. The sixth generation of a family of celebrated musicians, he was born in 1924 in the town of Gouripur, located in Bangladesh. He gave his first concert at the age of seven, and made his first recording in his early teens. His reputation now is equivalent to that of Pablo Casals in the West...
...departed the next day on one of those journeys to a global constituency unique to his championship reign. This time the destination was Bangladesh, where he was to dedicate a sports stadium named in his honor. He left behind a new boxing king and a glorious?and sometimes infuriating?past...
...attitude of Schleyer's kidnapers hardened in early October, shortly after Tokyo capitulated to terrorists who had skyjacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Bangladesh and demanded freedom for nine imprisoned "comrades" and $6 million in ransom. After the skyjacking last week, Schmidt began meeting around the clock with the Cabinet and two crisis groups that he had formed to handle the Schleyer kidnaping. As of early this week, his government was still refusing to buckle to the terrorists' demands. Although he has taken a hard line on terrorists, the Christian Democratic opposition has been accusing Schmidt...
Currently, HIID officials are discussing possible projects with the governments of Mali, Zaire, Bangladesh and Venezuela for the near future. As the institute broadens its commitments throughout the underdeveloped world, the consultants at HIID may even circumnavigate the globe, ending up in Harvard's more immediate backyard: a recent institute proposal, still in its developmental stages, calls for a development policy and management program for American Indian tribes...
...fact that much of the globe's arable land is underutilized, the problem of hunger takes on new dimensions. If Mali produced enough peanuts to export them during the 1974 drought in the Sahel, why were peasants there starving? If it is possible to increase productivity on Bangladesh acreage by a factor of 15, why is the country so often described as a basket case whose people are doomed...