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...Harrison album. for years, this was all most Americans knew of Bangladesh -- and Mukit Hossain has devoted his life to erasing that image. "We are a sophisticated, intelligent, highly evolved culture," proclaims Hossain, former head of the Federation of Bangladesh Associations of North America. But despite his efforts, non-Bangladeshi Americans have had a fresh stereotype to associate with Hossain's homeland ever since late-night king David Letterman's roving camera strayed into K&L's Rock America souvenir store, hard by his Times Square studio, and discovered Mujibur and Sirajul, painfully good-natured immigrant salesmen whom Letterman...
...where it has long been entrenched. In Manila the new mayor, Alfredo Lim, vows "to eradicate prostitution," and has padlocked 300 bars. Under a new law, pimps and clients will face prison and deportation. In Karachi human-rights lawyers are mobilizing opinion against rackets that have kidnapped 200,000 Bangladeshi women into prostitution in Pakistan. In Negombo, Sri Lanka, a recent mecca for European pedophiles, Catholic priests staged protest marches until embarrassed authorities agreed to combat the trade...
...present incident, Dr. Counter's letter appeared on April 14. We as an organization met that evening but did not fathom the emerging controversy. In the week that followed our organization hosted both the Indian Consulate General and the Bangladeshi Ambassador, while holding our annual elections. All three events proceeded as planned but in the following week We were approached to sign various letters. As I have previously mentioned, we undergo an intricate process before taking a stance such as this. My Co-President Muneer Ahmad responded to those who asked him to sign that he could not even consider...
...Bangladeshi Ambassador to the United States yesterday discussed the impact of recent international upheavals for developing countries in South Asia...
...Third World countries, which already bear an overload of political and economic woes. In one of the most seriously affected nations, Bangladesh, officials estimate that the gulf crisis will cost the impoverished country $220 million a year in higher oil prices and $100 million in lost remittances from Bangladeshi workers who have fled Kuwait and Iraq. The Philippines, which imports almost all its oil, will have to borrow heavily to keep its factories running and prevent unemployment from soaring above the present rate of 12.6%. Deepening Third World troubles will affect the U.S., which counts on the countries...