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...some estimates had 2,000 dead. Even if President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan is prepared to accept casualties of a geometrically greater magnitude, the outcome is likely to be the final breakup of East and West Pakistan and the painful birth of a new nation named Bangla Desh (Bengal State...
...sight. But soon the Free Bengal Revolutionary Radio Center, probably somewhere in Chittagong, crackled into life. Over the clandestine station. Mujib proclaimed the creation of the "sovereign independent Bengali nation," and called on its people to "resist the enemy forces at all costs in every corner of Bangla Desh." The defiant words, however, lacked military substance. At 1:30 a.m. the following day, soldiers seized the sheik in his home. Meanwhile, scattered rioting broke out in West Pakistan to protest the prospect of prolonged military rule...
Mendicant Among Nations. If East Pakistan eventually takes its place in the world community as Bangla Desh, it will have the world's eighth largest population and lowest per capita income ($50 a year). It will, inevitably, become a mendicant among nations, and the U.S. will face the need to increase the $250 million a year in foreign aid that it now gives to the combined wings of the country. East Pakistan has little industry to speak of, and the world demand for jute is gradually dropping. West Pakistan will also be left smaller and poorer, though...
...Mchiuddin Alangir, a fourth year graduate student in Economies, announced the formation of the Bangla Desh Association on Friday. East Pakistan has been renamed Bangla Desh by the insurgents...
Alangir also called for a focusing of international attention on the problems of Bangla Desh...