Word: khans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poles Apart. The crisis is an extension of the rioting over the central governments neglect of East Pakistan that helped force President Mohammed Ayub Khan to resign two years ago. Ayub's successor, authoritarian but fair-minded General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, held out hope that the long subservient East would have a greater voice in running the country...
...week's end Yahya Khan announced in a radio broadcast that the Constituent Assembly would convene after all on March 25. "As long as I am in command of the armed forces, I will ensure the complete and absolute integrity of Pakistan." Nevertheless, it seemed doubtful that Yahya's decision to convene the assembly would pacify Mujib. Two days earlier, the East Pakistani leader said of the West Pakistanis: "I will break them and bring them to their knees." After such a statement, an outright declaration of independence could be little more than an anticlimax...
Every audience loves the ridiculous comic figure who stomps wordlessly across the stage at discreet intervals. In just that role Bob Guaraldi, as Alf the Red Retriever (remember Alph the sacred river in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"?), could not be more ridiculous or more lovable. His costume alone is enough to do the trick: he sports long red underwear, a large fur coat, a bright red nose and great, comfortable-looking boots, the better to clomp with. Each character flirts with everyone else, but Alf manages to be the most open about it, sitting down beside May Wish and howling...
...government war in Indochina, one of the most barbarous in all history, must be ended now, not in 1972 just before the presidential elections. Otherwise we are certain to become worse than Attila, worse than Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, more cowardly and worse than Hitler and Tojo combined. All the official propaganda about saving our environment from pollution, while committing genocide in Indochina, is obscene. It is an effort to divert attention, I fear, from U. S. government barbarism in Indochina, and avarice and imperialism around the world...
Other possibilities include Former Chilean President Eduardo Frei; Ceylon's U.N. Ambassador Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe; former U.N. Ambassador Endalkachew Makonnen of Ethiopia; and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan of Iran, uncle of the Aga Khan and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. When the points are added up, however, it is hard to beat the score of a certain soft-spoken Asian who comes from a small, neutral, underdeveloped country that recognizes Peking, who has kept on reasonably good terms with both superpowers, and who reflects what one diplomat calls "a comfortable level of mediocrity." As a result, some believe that...