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...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...
...Danger. Why had the delta's 3,000,000 Bengalis been so unprepared? A U.S. weather satellite's photo of severe weather in the Bay of Bengal had been received in the East Pakistani capital of Dacca more than ten hours before the cyclone struck. A warning -moha bipod shonket (big danger coming)-was broadcast, but someone forgot to include a code number indicating the force of the expected storm...
...worldwide response to the catastrophe was unprecedentedly swift and generous. Less than four days after the cyclone struck, Red Cross supplies were arriving at Dacca airport. Soon the delta skies began to fill with an international fleet of 29 choppers (U.S., British, French, West German and Saudi Arabian), which are the only means of moving supplies rapidly in an area with many canals, few roads and hardly any airstrips. A four-ship British task force anchored in the bay and began choppering food, clothing, medicine and water purification pills to the remote coastal areas. Pledges of aid from 40 countries...
...pilgrimage had proceeded at a headlong pace. Paul's first stop was at Teheran airport in Iran, where the Pope greeted a small crowd of Iranian Roman Catholics and conferred for 30 minutes with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. It was long after midnight before the papal plane reached Dacca, where Paul stopped only long enough to deliver a message of sympathy to the stricken East Pakistanis and a contribution of $10,000 toward the relief of the starving victims of the recent cyclone and tidal wave. Even in the air, the Pope was busy, dispatching messages to countries...
...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...