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...wake of the tragedy, the entire country was stunned into shock and silence. Proclaiming a day of national mourning, Bangladesh's President, Lieut. General Hussain Mohammad Ershad, postponed a planned state visit to China and hurried to Urirchar. After traveling through winds so fierce that his helicopter had to land before continuing, the President gave drinking water and biscuits to a few children, handed out clothes and looked on as bodies were buried. He could find no words adequate to the tragedy. "The devastation," he said simply, "is beyond description...
...most of the survivors had no shelter, no clothing, no medicine, no food. There was little fresh water, and many were forced to drink a salty brine that had been exposed to the elements and was probably polluted by decomposing bodies. The corpses were ubiquitous. "It was terrible," said Mohammad Taher, who arrived on Urirchar the day after the disaster. "I could not believe what I saw. Bodies were all around. I myself buried at least...
...Pico Iyer. Reported by Mohammad Aftab/lslamabad and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
Students from John Jay College in New Jersey, Drew University in Wisconsin, and the University of Southern Alabama also wrote Pakistani president Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq this fall to demand Ahsan's release...
Dede's ex-colleagues the small-time hoods chased up and down the Bellevile streets by the police, provide economic relief particularly one Mohammad Djerbi: "I don't deal. These are my life savings. Don't touch me-I'm a tourista. This cocaine? It's not mine. I found it-The money's to buy a washing machine for my mother." etc...etc...ad nauseum...