Word: dacca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dacca, army tanks and truckloads of troops with fixed bayonets came clattering out of their suburban base, shouting "Victory to Allah," and "Victory to Pakistan." TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who, along with other newsmen, was subsequently expelled from Pakistan, reported: "Before long, howitzer, tank artillery and rocket blasts rocked half a dozen scattered sections of Dacca. Tracers arced over the darkened city. The staccato chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated with grenade explosions, and tall columns of black smoke towered over the city. In the night came the occasional cry of 'Joi Bangla [Victory to Bengal],' followed...
...army ordered a strict 24-hour curfew in Dacca, with violators shot on sight. But soon the Free Bengal Revolutionary Radio Center, probably somewhere in Chittagong, crackled into life. Over the clandestine station. Mujib proclaimed the creation of the "sovereign independent Bengali nation," and called on its people to "resist the enemy forces at all costs in every corner of Bangla Desh." The defiant words, however, lacked military substance. At 1:30 a.m. the following day, soldiers seized the sheik in his home. Meanwhile, scattered rioting broke out in West Pakistan to protest the prospect of prolonged military rule...
Determined to hold the country together, Yahya resisted Mujib's demands for autonomy. Postponing the Constitutional Assembly, he flew to Dacca and in eleven days of meetings with Mujib came almost within sight of a compromise agreement. Yahya, however, demanded that the leader of West Pakistan's majority party, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, also be a party to the agreement. Bhutto insisted on heading the foreign ministry while Mujib maintained that, with an overall majority, he had the right to form a government without Bhutto...
...tends to scold Bengalis like so many children. He was born in the East Bengal village of Tongipara 51 years ago to a middle-class landowner (his landlord status accounts for the title of sheik). Mujib studied liberal arts at Calcutta's Islamia College and law at Dacca University. He lives with his wife Fazil-itunessa, three sons and two daughters in a modest two-story house in Dacca's well-to-do Dhanmandi section. Except for a brief stint as an insurance salesman, he has devoted most of his time to politics. First he opposed British rule...
Working at the SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory in Dacca, the doctors vastly improved the usual treatment. This involves massive intravenous infusions of water and salts to replace the victim's body fluids and prevent dehydration. Unlike this procedure, the new cure requires little supervision or equipment. It relies on large oral doses of a solution whose ingredients-salts, baking soda and glucose-can be purchased cheaply in any village market. Patients in reasonably good condition simply consume about 21 qt. of the mixture; those who have reached the stage of intestinal collapse are first built up with a brief...