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Died. Sheik Mujibur Rahman, 55, charismatic Bengali leader and President of Bangladesh; assassinated during a military coup; in Dacca (see THE WORLD...
...BENGALI INHERITANCE (Pantheon; 225 pages; $6.95) is also based on the gold standard. Hong Kong Senior Inspector Richard Chan is a heroic young pro whose district is the last resting place of a 24-karat fortune. The loot has been missing since 1945, when the Fascist collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose perished in an air crash. Bird-dogging the musty trail of the treasure, Detective Chan takes on a slew of Oriental cutthroats, as well as the colonial snobs who disdainfully regard him as a subgumshoe. Ceylonese Author Owen Cela is obviously no stranger to the refractions of cultural prejudice...
...wheat to give their dying children is little different from reading unemployment statistics in Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people hurrying...
Best Forgotten. The New Delhi accord was less precise in dealing with the fate of the 500,000 Biharis (non-Bengali Moslems) in Bangladesh. Many of the Biharis-so called because they emigrated from the Indian state of Bihar at the time of the 1947 partition-sided with the Pakistani military during the war, and for that reason face a painful future if they stay in Bangladesh. Most of them live in fear and squalor in huge refugee camps outside Dacca and other cities...
...range of foods from many lands to be sampled includes Indonensian "satay" (beef tidbits on bamboo skewers), Polish "golabki" (stuffed cabbage), German potato salad and American barbecued ribs. Others include Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Egyptian, French, Greek, Hawaiian, Indian, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish, Turkish and Ukrainian dishes. For those with a sweet tooth there will be many pastries and an international candy booth...