Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subcontinent nearly drowned in blood. More than 100,000 people were killed and 12 million left homeless in an orgy of butchery, rape and destruction. Last week the horrible memories of those ugly days came back to India as mobs ran loose in Kashmir, East Pakistan and West Bengal...
Died. Mohammed Ali, 53, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, onetime Prime Minister (1953-55) and former Ambassador to the U.S., a convivial son of a rich Bengal landowner and one of his nation's most progressive politicians, a firm friend of the West who once confided that his "life's ambition'' was to retire to Florida and open a curry restaurant; of a heart attack; in Dacca...
...Sikkim. Reaching Calcutta, perhaps the world's most miserable city, where 125,000 homeless persons sleep on the streets each night, they would find readymade the strongest Communist organization in India. According to this theory, the Reds could set up a satellite regime in the Bay of Bengal and, without going any farther with their armies, wait for the rest of India to splinter and fall. This strategy has not necessarily been abandoned for good, but it certainly has been set aside. For one thing, the Chinese attack shattered Communism as a political force even in Calcutta...
Died. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, 80, India's autocratic Chief Minister of West Bengal, including Calcutta, since 1948, a bachelor, who as Mahatma Gandhi's personal physician kept his patient alive during the freedom fasts by sugaring his orange juice; of a stroke; in Calcutta...
Best chances for the opposition is in the state assemblies (see map). In Rajasthan, the Swatantra and Jana Sangh could topple the Congress leadership, and in West Bengal a leftist front could overthrow Congress. In the Punjab a Sikh separate language party threatens Congress for control of the Assembly. In Mysore, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Congress may lose some seats. In Parliament its victory is beyond question, though the opposition parties may win as many as 200 of the 494 seats...