Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yugoslav water-polo team lost a close contest to the Soviet Union. Displeased by defeat, the Yugoslav sportsmen spat on the Cuban referee and beat the daylights out of his bewildered brother. Pakistan, perennial power in field hockey, was upset in the Olympic final by West Germany, 1-0. Pakistani fans nearly mobbed the referees, the players ridiculed the awards ceremony and roughed up a doctor at the doping tests, and eleven members of the team were forever banned from Olympic competition. Before the Games began, Black African nations, threatening a boycott, browbeat the I.O.C. into banning white-supremacist Rhodesia...
India, which captured the most territory in December, made a major concession in agreeing to return some 5,100 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory-all except a few strategic salients in Kashmir. Despite this good-will offering, India failed to win any firm concessions from Bhutto on the Kashmir question, which has so long poisoned relations between the countries. Pakistan maintains that the future of the predominantly Moslem state (pop. 4,600,000) should be determined in a plebiscite. India, which holds that Jammu and Kashmir's accession to India in 1947 is legal and final, wants to have...
...months after the Indo-Pakistani war that created the new nation of Bangladesh, the two principals-India's Indira Gandhi and Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto-will hold a long-anticipated summit meeting this week in the Indian mountain retreat of Simla, north of New Delhi. At issue between them is the question of an international boundary line in the disputed state of Kashmir, which has been about equally divided between the two countries since 1949. Mrs. Gandhi will likely propose that the cease-fire line that existed in Kashmir before the December war continue as the boundary...
...been no widespread famine, as was feared, thanks to large grain shipments from India and the U.S. and others purchased by the United Nations. The crowded Bihari ghettos are still hotbeds of tension, but there has been no massacre of the non-Bengalis, who frequently sided with the Pakistani military during the nine-month siege last year...
...Pakistani spokesmen also said the two sides agreed to "reduce tension" in disputed Kashmir, including troop pullbacks from the explosive ceasefire line there, and that the pact did not include handing over territory taken in the India-Pakistan war last December...