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...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...
...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...
Earnest Apology. The well-coordinated mobs that stormed the Karachi embassy and other official U.S. installations in Lahore and Dacca in protest at the halt in American arms shipments last month clearly had government approval-though apparently not Ayub...
...narrow channels of the Ganges delta, flooding the alluvial fields, smashing and flattening the green stalks of the vital jute crop, ripping apart banana, betel nut and coconut palm plantations, uprooting giant mango orchards and inundating thousands of acres of rice. In East Pakistan's capital of Dacca, 125 miles from the sea, millions spent four terrified hours in the dead of night as banshee winds raked off corrugated iron hut roofs and wound them around telephone poles, shredded power lines and choked water mains and wells with brine...