Word: dacca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Pakistani capitol of Dacca was reported under firm government control Sunday, but fighting still raged in smaller cities and in the countryside...
...behind the impending split is Sheik Mujibur ("Mujib") Rahman, the unchallenged political leader of the more populous, poverty-stricken, eastern segment. "Pakistan, as it stands today, is finished," Mujib told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin in Dacca last week. "There is no longer any hope of a settlement." He urged that East and West Pakistan adopt separate constitutions, and that his followers refuse to pay taxes to the central government, which is situated in the West. He seemed on the brink of an outright declaration of independence for what he calls Bangla Desh (Bengal State), which would become the world...
Following the December elections, Mujib twice turned down Yahya's invitations to confer in Islamabad, the national capital located in the West. Yahya went to Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan, and so did Bhutto. They got nowhere with Mujib, who warned stiffly that the minority would no longer rule the majority...
...Their Knees. Two days before the Constituent Assembly was set to convene in Dacca last week, Yahya postponed it indefinitely to give the political leaders a chance to reach an understanding. The postponement infuriated the Bengalis. "I am not imposing the six-point program on West Pakistan," declared Mujib, "but the people of Bangla Desh are entitled to it, and they will have it." In protest, Mujib called an all-day general strike for the following day, and half-day strikes for the rest of the week, shuttering offices, shops and factories and halting trains, planes and even rickshas. Angry...
...trip started with Sydney's Anglican Archbishop Marcus Loane, who announced in October that he would not attend an ecumenical service with the Pope; Loane cited such doctrinal differences as papal infallibility to explain his refusal. A columnist in Turin's La Stampa criticized the Dacca stop, arguing that the papal visit would pull needed men and equipment off relief operations. A Catholic monthly in Colombo asked whether papal visits "help clarify fundamental issues or mystify them," pointing out that the Pontiff could give equally impassioned speeches in "racist Portugal" and in "underdeveloped Uganda...