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Mass Graves. Opposed only by bands of Bengali peasants armed with stones and bamboo sticks, tanks rolled through Dacca, the East's capital, blowing houses to bits. At the university, soldiers slaughtered students inside the British Council building. "It was like Genghis Khan," said a shocked Western official who witnessed the scene. Near Dacca's marketplace, Urdu-speaking government soldiers ordered Bengali-speaking townspeople to surrender, then gunned them down when they failed to comply. Bodies lay in mass graves at the university, in the Old City, and near the municipal dump...
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...
Though children are reluctant to swallow the solution, it has proved astoundingly effective with adults. Tested on more than 4,000 cholera victims in both Dacca and rural areas, it has proved as effective as intravenous treatment in curbing cholera mortality. Equally important in a country where the average per capita income is only $50 a year, it has sharply reduced the price of treatment. The cost of intravenous treatmen for cholera is about 200 rupees, or $42 Enough oral solution to cure the average victim costs only three rupees...