Word: dacca
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...claim that the death total was evenly distributed between Hindus and Moslems. But the pendulum had already swung back the other way. More than 5,000 Moslems left West Bengal and fled across the border to East Pakistan. At week's end, in the East Pakistan capital of Dacca, mobs killed 50 Hindus...
...towns in the world's most extensive helicopter network. In a land where travel is made slow and difficult by hundreds of marshes and rivers, the three Sikorsky twin-turbine helicopters will reduce travel time dramatically: the 25-hour river trip that is now the shortest way between Dacca and Chalna will be cut to 45 minutes by air, the 22-hour surface trip from Dacca to Faridpur to 17 minutes...
...agreement calls for a route from Karachi and Dacca, in East Pakistan, to Canton, Shanghai and Tokyo. To this end, the Chinese will extend the runways in Shanghai and Canton to handle Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 jets, which are expected to begin the new run next year. If the Japanese go along as they may if Japan airlines get reciprocal rights, the Sino-Pakistan deal would be not only a political but an economic plum: for years Western airlines, including BOAC, have tried but failed to obtain landing rights in China. In Washington, the State Department termed...
...Kamal Hossain, barrister at law and lecturer in international law at the University of Dacca, continued to talk about the problems presented by the cold war and the extent to which they have slowed economic advance...
...convivial son of a rich Bengal landowner and one of his nation's most progressive politicians, a firm friend of the West who once confided that his "life's ambition'' was to retire to Florida and open a curry restaurant; of a heart attack; in Dacca...