Word: ghulam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics of confrontation or instead seeks some form of political conciliation. For the moment, he seems bent on the former. Despite his initial promise to restore democracy to Pakistan, the proposed constitution is clearly designed to preserve dictatorial powers for himself. If he insists on that course, warns Malik Ghulam Jilani, a political leader who fled to London for fear of his life, it will lead to the "demolition of Pakistan, brick by brick and stone by stone. Bhutto has tried to fool the people," he adds, "but now the people have seen his iron fist under the velvet glove...
...even quintuple. The cyclone was thus guaranteed its place as the 20th century's worst natural disaster. In all, the storm devastated a densely populated, 3,000-sq. mi. area, destroying 90% of the buildings and 90% of the rice crop. In some areas, TIME's Ghulam Malik reported last week, "it was like the beginning of life after Doomsday. People were wandering naked, wailing the names of kin who never responded. At Hatia, survivors wore rags that they found in ponds and ditches. And if they could find no rags, they wore leaves...
Whatever the final toll, the East Pakistan catastrophe has already reached such dimensions as to make it seem unreal. Up close, it is real enough. Cabled TIME's Ghulam Malik after a tour of Manpura Island: "I could not walk 200 yards without passing heaps of bloated bodies. For miles, animal carcasses littered the landscape. The stench was appalling, the sight of parents hovering over their dead children staggering. My legs shook...