Word: bihari
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...district of Bhagalpur, 5,000 Biharis sat on railroad tracks and blocked trains to protest the action taken against the suspended police officers. Elsewhere in the district, villagers supporting strong police measures have threatened work stoppages. One Bihari woman, whose father has been robbed twice, insisted that "something must be done" to stop the crime. What if the accused are not guilty? She shrugged. If police arrested them, she said, they were probably guilty...
...India since Mohandas Gandhi was shot in 1948, Mishra had recently been the target of corruption charges involving the issuance of import licenses during his term as Minister for Foreign Trade (1970-73). The agitation in Bihar has been aimed at unseating a state government that Mishra, himself a Bihari, had strongly backed. The movement has been led by one of India's most respected political leaders, Jayaprakash Narayan, 72, a founder of the Socialist Party and one of the last of Gandhi's immediate disciples. Narayan has been pressing for new elections in Bihar...
...states, Bihar leaders made little use of the available funds. Engaged in an internecine political struggle for control of the state government, they failed to enforce a plan for immunizing the local population. Their lack of concern has apparently infected even health workers. While the epidemic rages, 2,200 Bihari doctors and health personnel are threatening to strike unless their salary demands...
...achieved independence but is also gradually recovering from the war and showing signs of success in winning the peace. So far, there has been no widespread famine, as was feared, thanks to large grain shipments from India and the U.S. and others purchased by the United Nations. The crowded Bihari ghettos are still hotbeds of tension, but there has been no massacre of the non-Bengalis, who frequently sided with the Pakistani military during the nine-month siege last year...
...Collaborator" is an easy word to use, and the effects can be devastating. In Dhanmandi, Dacca's most fashionable quarter, residents are now accustomed to having groups of armed youths enter their houses in quest of money and goods. Acts of revenge against the non-Bengali minority of Biharis have subsided in the capital but have continued sporadically elsewhere; at the city of Khulna two weeks ago, a Bengali attack on the Bihari community reportedly left some 2,000 dead. Bitterness against the Biharis is widespread. "Those bastards," says Altafur Rahman, a Dacca law student. "Let them...