Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of Bangladesh, and of Pakistan itself, was being decided in the East, Indian and Pakistani forces were making painful stabs at one another along the 1,400-mile border that reaches from the icy heights of Kashmir through the flat plains of the Punjab down to the desert of western India. There the battle was being waged by bearded Sikhs wearing khaki turbans, tough, flat-faced Gurkhas, who carry a curved knife known as a kukri in their belts, and many other ethnic strains. Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients...
...physically normal person's aversion to the handicapped is based on his unconscious fear of being struck by a similar fate. As Jansen and Esser see it, the burden-perhaps an impossibly heavy one-is on the victim himself, to let others know how he would like to be treated and to shift attention away from his damaged body and toward the self inside...
Such ingredients are the stuff of melodrama; Peckinpah transforms them into the relentless geometry of fate. David returns home, finds Amy nearly hysterical in bed, but does not understand-or chooses to ignore-her veiled references to the attack. Instead, out of his own sense of humiliation, David fires...
Since the "election" in South Vietnam ended long ago, a visit by MacBride could not possibly upset the political balance in the South. After his visit there, MacBride could proceed to investigate treatment of American prisoners held in North Vietnam. Surely Nixon, who has bemoaned the fate of the prisoners for so long, would not prevent such an inspection trip...
Similarly, the fate of the Bengalis slaughtered last March and April mattered little in Nixon's calculations. Now there is a full-scale war in the Indian subcontinent, and another is brewing in the Middle East. Nixon may condemn India and North Vietnam, but he will not gain his "generation of peace" by invoking faded morality or by varying the quantity and kind of bombs dropped...