Word: dacca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade between the two countries has not been resumed. Denied access to Pakistani suppliers, Calcutta's jute mills have been forced to reduce output 25% , while some Dacca cigarette factories have closed down completely because no tobacco is being imported from West Bengal. Travel between the two countries is almost nonexistent, postal and telegraph communications operate far below standard, and rail, road and river traffic is severely curtailed in both nations. India and Pakistan may not be actively at war, but they are not at peace either...
...downtown Dacca, jittery shopkeepers clanked their corrugated front doors shut and raced for home. Trains were derailed, cars were stoned and burned, tires were slashed. In one howling clash with police, four rioters were killed. At Narayanganj, 15 miles south of Dacca, rioters armed with shotguns stormed a police station, and seven more were gunned down. In Tejgaon, some 20,000 swarmed angrily into the streets, looking for trouble...
...week's end, both East and West Pakistan were squaring off against each other. "It's going to be a long, drawn-out effort," says Syed Zahiruddin, a Dacca attorney and the league's executive secretary. Ayub compares the current tensions to the U.S. situation just before the Civil War. "If necessary," Ayub warns menacingly, "the language of weapons will have to speak...
...bank hopes to open by summer. Within two to four years, a 7,000-mi. all-weather Asian highway is expected to link Teheran and Singapore. A road of sorts is 96% completed now, and in the dry season, adventurous motorists can attempt the trip from Iran to Dacca in East Pakistan...
...other down, or both? Experiments with himself and his teammates as subjects heroically submitting to an induced diarrhea similar to that of cholera have failed to yield a definite answer. But Dr. Phillips, 59, is not giving up. Just retired From the Navy, he moved last week to Dacca in East Pakistan, where he will head the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory...