Word: pakistans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot, he added, was devised because Anderson was widely hated in the Nixon Administration for printing stories based on national security leaks. Example: the disclosure that Nixon secretly favored Pakistan in the India-Pakistan...
...then there are the utterly impoverished nations-countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Chad and Haiti. These constitute what is now being called the "Fourth World": countries with burgeoning populations, few natural resources and an undeveloped industrial base. According to World Bank President Robert McNamara, who will issue a grim survey of the world economy this week, there are some 900 million people in this Fourth World who subsist on incomes of less than $75 a year. "They are the absolute poor," said McNamara, "living in situations so deprived as to be below any rational definition of human decency...
There is a still more alarming, if more remote prospect. Many of the poorest countries, though on the brink of mass famine, have enough resources and technology to produce atomic weapons. India exploded its first bomb 16 months ago; other states like Pakistan could follow suit. It is unlikely but not inconceivable that these economically desperate states, feeling they have nothing to lose, might try to use nuclear blackmail to get more help from the West. As Economist Robert Heilbroner writes in his highly pessimistic An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, "The resort to ultimate tactics is surely...
...pages) is not a matter of kilometers of canvas and barrels of paint. The final important scene of this last book is typical and illustrates the point. It is 1947, and the British are leaving India. Moslem and Hindu mobs, quarreling over the separation of the two sections of Pakistan from India, are butchering one another. A train from an old British hill station in the north is stopped by angry Hindus as it crosses the plains. Shouting Indian attackers kill shrieking Indian passengers by the hundreds. A young upper-class Moslem man, traveling in a first-class compartment with...
...last large-scale killers occurred in Asia. One, last December in northern Pakistan, ravaged nine towns and took nearly 5,000 lives. The other, a February tremor in China, is believed to have killed hundreds. Indeed, not a day passes without earth tremors somewhere on the globe. Some of those quakes are too weak to be felt by humans; they can be detected only by sensitive seismographs. Others are more violent but occur on the ocean floor or in remote areas and do no harm. Some add to the long catalogue of destruction. Last week, for example, a 4.7 earthquake...