Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule, the soldierly Ayub has announced his "irrevocable decision" to step aside at that point, leaving to a discordant array of opposition politicians the task of healing Pakistan's divisions, inflamed by five months of anti-government disorders. Last week new rioting and outbreaks of mob rule in East Pakistan showed just how precarious the task...
...city to a halt. Conceding that "there is no respect for law and order in the country and mob rule is the order of the day," Home Minister A. R. Khan ordered two shiploads of troops to sail for Chittagong in order to help restore order in East Pakistan...
...some of the opposition leaders, but it did not please the President's principal critic, ex-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He called for Ayub to resign in favor of a caretaker government, presumably to be headed by himself. Nor did Ayub's plan mollify two leading East Pakistan politicians, Sheik Mujibur Rahman and Maulana Abdul Hamid Bhashani, the 83-year-old leader of the pro-China faction of the National Awami Party...
Playing on the longstanding resentment of East Pakistan's Bengalis over the economic and political dominance of West Pakistan, the two Easterners called for far more substantial autonomy for their region. They also wanted parliamentary representation by population (58% of the population of the dissected country live in the eastern sector) rather than by the 50-50 representational split that now prevails in the federal government. The fiery Bhashani warned that if the elections proceed before autonomy is granted, "we will set ablaze the polling booths...
...their native South Korea. They had been abducted by agents of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency, who at the time were rounding up South Korean intellectuals and students by the dozen in Europe as alleged spies. The Yuns were accused of having visited North Korean officials in East Germany and of having made a trip through Siberia to North Korea itself-purportedly under the instructions of North Korean espionage agents...