Word: coggin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broadcast to his 130 million fellow citizens, he kept his word. Promising -indeed, practically commanding-an orderly march back to civilian rule, he said: "I am not prepared to tolerate any obstruction in the restoration of democracy." Last week Yahya explained his political views to TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin at the President's House in Rawalpindi. "I am quite certain," he said forcefully, "that the people want democracy...
...approved, a government will be installed, with the convention delegates making up the National Assembly. That could come as early as 1971. Yahya is convinced that a freely elected Assembly will work in Pakistan. "I have been trying to rehabilitate the nation's political life," he told Coggin, "so that I could hand over the government to the people's representatives. I see some life in the political limbs...
...What is really at stake," writes TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin from New Delhi, "is the political stability that has allowed the 550 million people of the world's largest working democracy to begin their slow emergence from centuries of poverty, ignorance and disease. If the Congress umbrella splinters, sending its diverse elements running in all directions for opportunistic alliances, India might well be plunged into political chaos." By 1972, Indira must therefore prove that the Congress can indeed get India moving. If she fails, her recent political triumphs, for all their flashiness, will count as nothing...
...Under fear of harsh penalties, Pakistan's other politicians, including Bhashani's chief Bengali rival, moderate Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have kept silent. Not Bhashani, who continues to receive newsmen and followers at his bamboo-walled hut. "What have I to fear?" he asked TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, as he adjusted his soiled straw skull cap and straightened the green sweater that he wore inside out. "I would welcome being hanged for my people...
Hope in Chaos. The International Commission of Jurists has branded this systematic annihilation of Tibetan life as "genocide." Three times the United Nations has censured Peking for "violating fundamental human rights and freedom." The Dalai Lama told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who journeyed to the god-king's exile in the Indian Himalayas at Dharmsala, that "Tibet still exists despite all the Chinese have done. But I don't know for how long. Another 20 years like this and there will be no Tibet...