Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Annie--Asian smuuglers, Russian spies out to topple the free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion that he was enjoying the hell out of the whole show. Then he'd weigh anchor...
...crisis stemmed from the March elections, in which Bhutto's ruling Pakistan People's Party yielded only 36 of the 200 National Assembly seats to the opposition. The P.P.P. polled an incredible 93% of the vote in Punjab, the country's most populous province and an opposition stronghold. It was a dazzling victory-except that practically everybody in Pakistan assumed that the elections had been massively rigged by Bhutto's zealous supporters. Accordingly, the opposition alliance immediately embarked on a campaign of rioting, looting and strikes, which carried with it a threat of civil war. Nearly...
Among other things, the opposition had demanded that the government act to reinforce Pakistan's character as an Islamic state. Last week Bhutto announced that he would introduce legislation to ban alcohol, gambling and nightclubs. He also offered to hold new elections for provincial assemblies in the Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier. If the National Alliance got a majority of votes in the polling, Bhutto promised, he would then dissolve the National Assembly and order a new general election...
...overwhelming victory-taking 155 parliamentary seats, v. 36 for the National Alliance-was outrage and disbelief. General strikes called by the opposition shut down the cities of Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi and the capital of Islamabad. National Alliance candidates boycotted the subsequent provincial elections in the Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier, even though they were favored to win majorities in the last two provinces. In addition, the opposition demanded 1) Bhutto's resignation, 2) the disbanding of the election commission for failing to conduct a fair election, and 3) dissolution of the National Assembly pending...
...most threatening effect of the power shortage is on agriculture. This year, the combination of drought and fertilizer shortages is likely to hold India's grain harvest low enough to cause near famine; the power scarcity worsens the situation by making electric irrigation pumps all but useless. In Punjab state, wealthy farmers had purchased diesel pumps to use when the electric pumps failed, but the oil troubles have made diesel fuel scarce too. Gas stations selling diesel fuel have to be protected by policemen from mobs of farmers who wait for days for tank trucks to arrive and then...