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...Bangladesh had little reason to enjoy a happy first birthday. If it is not the "basket case" that Henry Kissinger once called it, neither has it become the Shonar Bangla (Golden Bengal) envisioned by Mujib. How much this is the fault of Mujib is a moot question. It is true that he has had little time in which to combat some of Bangladesh's immense problems. Nevertheless, some critics contend that he has wasted some of the time playing the role of popular revolutionary figure (such as personally receiving virtually any of his people who call on him) when...
...whims of weather have always bedeviled India's food production. This year the drought that appears every five years with devastating regularity has struck again, sweeping across India from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea and north to the foothills of the Himalayas. Across the vast Deccan Plateau, where 50 million people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough...
...horror of all things corporate, Mills rarely goes near the place, leaving the day-to-day bookkeeping to lieutenants. Mostly he works out of his home in suburban Surrey, which he shares with his wife, four young daughters and a small zoo (properly penned) of seven gorillas, three Bengal tigers, a panther, leopard and cheetah. Inside the house live a Great Dane, two cats, hamsters, guinea pigs and hummingbirds. "I could actually be happy on an island with various threatened species," says Mills. Threatened species are something Mills obviously knows a bit about. After all, is there any species more...
...large, the advisers are embarrassed by orders to retreat under fire; unlike many G.I.s who serve only in American units, they have considerable respect and liking for the ARVN soldiers, although not necessarily for their commanders. "These little Bengies [Bengal Tigers] are great soldiers," says Colonel J. Ross Franklin, adviser to the ARVN 21st Division...
...last Sunday, the city of Dacca resounded with the thunder of a 31-gun salute that marked the beginning of Bangladesh's first independence day. A year and a day earlier, on March 25, 1971, Pakistan had launched its military crackdown against rebellious East Bengal, which led to the brief, bloody war between India and Pakistan, the death of as many as 3,000,000 Bengalis-and the birth of a new nation...