Word: larkana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown to the town of Larkana, 200 miles northeast of Karachi. There, in his family's burial plot, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, the most popular civilian politician to come to power in Pakistan's 32 years of independence, was hastily interred last week before the country was told of his death...
Last week Bhutto, 47, talked at his home in Larkana with TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief William Smith about Pakistan's problems; he had flown there to celebrate the Moslem holiday of 'Id al-Adha before making a four-day state visit to Sri Lanka. Sipping tea on the veranda of the rambling country house, he reminisced about his days at the University of Southern California during the late 1940s. Smith, who was then a student at California Occidental College and vividly recalls Bhutto's championship debating style, reported that "the Prime Minister...
...Under the new plan, the ceiling on individual holdings will drop from 500 to 150 acres of irrigated land, and from 1,000 to 300 acres of dry land. Among the rich men affected, pledged Bhutto, will be his own family, which owns a 4,000-acre estate at Larkana in Sind Province...
Bhutto has lectured the long-captive Pakistani press against blaming the country's problems on other nations. Hosting a buffet luncheon for foreign correspondents on the lawn of his family home at Larkana, where he had gone to celebrate his 44th birthday, Bhutto promised to make an announcement soon about "the first phase of our movement toward democracy," adding: "Believe me, I mean it. If I am pulling a fast one, you'll soon realize that...