Word: bengal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROLE IN ASIA: There are no countries that display greater disparity in economic development than Australia and her neighbors. Australia certainly can and should do a certain amount toward decreasing this disparity. We have a Gross National Product equal to that of all the countries between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. Those countries have 20 times our population. Developing the resources of these countries is something that should be, must be, solved in a short term, that is, a generation...
...Dacca. The village is accessible only by boat or on foot (or, in the Prime Minister's case, by helicopter), but by the time Mujib arrived, 20,000 people had crowded in from as far as 25 miles away to hear the man they call Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengal...
...Then, reminding his audience to vote for the symbol of the boat in the country's first national election, he asked them "to put up both your hands if you have confidence in me." A forest of hands shot up, and lusty shouts of "Jot Bangla!" (Victory to Bengal) rang...
...draft constitution that would in effect continue his own rule for another 15 years. To make matters worse, the army operations in Baluchistan were reportedly supervised by Chief of Staff General Tikka Khan, the former martial-law administrator of East Pakistan who earned notoriety as the "butcher of Bengal...
...RELATIONS WITH INDIA: "I don't harbor anti-India feelings. I speak more in sorrow. You see, they think they succeeded in East Pakistan. They have not realized that they put their fingers in the furnace of Bengal, and their fingers are going to burn badly. Pakistan wants India's friendship, but not her leadership. We want equality. India should not have pretensions of becoming a dominant power. There are more people in India sleeping in the streets than any place else in the world. A dominant power is dominant inherently...