Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions of Sheikh Mujib have conflicted sharply with a statement by President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan last month in an interview with Time magazine. Bhutto said that Pakistan was "determined to recognize [Bangladesh] provided there is machinery whereby we get our prisoners of war back...
...Bhutto went on to say that he felt the stalemate would be broken after the March elections in Bangladesh and the framing of a new constitution for Pakistan...
...keep his popular backing, Bhutto must get Pakistan's 90,000 P.O.W.s back from India, which hinges on his recognition of Bangladesh. Last week three young Pakistanis burst into the London offices of the Indian High Commission armed with swords, acid spray and toy guns. They took eight staff members hostage, apparently to draw attention to the P.O.W. issue. British police, thinking the guns were real, killed two youths, Basharat Hussain and Mohammed Hanif Hussain, both 19, and captured the third, a 15-year...
...larger question is whether Bhutto can find a way to hold the country together. Much may depend on whether he continues to pursue the politics of confrontation or instead seeks some form of political conciliation. For the moment, he seems bent on the former. Despite his initial promise to restore democracy to Pakistan, the proposed constitution is clearly designed to preserve dictatorial powers for himself. If he insists on that course, warns Malik Ghulam Jilani, a political leader who fled to London for fear of his life, it will lead to the "demolition of Pakistan, brick by brick and stone...
Shortly after Zulfikar AliBhutto ousted the governors of Pakistan's rebel provinces, TIME'S Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter interviewed the President at his Rawalpindi residence. "If there was crisis in the air," Schecter cabled, "Bhutto did not show it. Dressed in a stylish double-breasted suit, he seemed self-assured and anxious to be his own man. He is firm in his belief that he has made important gains in solving Pakistan's economic and political problems. Now he feels there will be a 'magic spring,' for in the end the subcontinent must live...