Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holding action in the west while aiming for a quick knockout in the east, Pakistani ground forces claimed to have seized "significant territory" on India's western border. One of the Pakistani advances was in the Sialkot sector near Kashmir; India admitted losing "some ground" on the Punjab border near Ferozepore...
...commander in the Jessore sector, told newsmen that the Indian guerrilla forces had lost 200 to 300 dead and twice as many wounded, but that they had managed to recover all the bodies; that would be quite a feat under any circumstances. Ansari showed journalists a letter stamped "14th Punjab Regiment" and an Indian soldier's diary picked up in the course of the fighting...
...difficulty is not so much that Drury has borrowed Little Orphan Annie's politics, but that he did not sign up Punjab, the Asp and Sandy, too. Given a day or two to learn their lines, they could have substituted with much improvement in subtlety of characterization for the cereal-box astronauts and Comsymp Eastern Establishment journalists who snooze about Drury's stage. An astronaut at play: "There are astronauts," he said, "and sometimes there are astronaughties...
...Sikh, protesting the division of Chandigarh, died on the 74th day of a fast. In the ensuing crisis Sikh Leader Sant Fateh Singh, who had been threatening self-immolation off and on since 1966, vowed to go through with it this time unless Chandigarh was given unconditionally to the Punjab. He set Feb. 1 as the date. As if to underline the Sant's resolve, his attendants had collected kerosene and firewood at their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar. To complicate matters, a Hindu named K. K. Toofan, fasting outside Indira's residence in New Delhi...
...make up her mind. Three days before the Sant's scheduled bonfire, she announced that Chandigarh would go to the Sikhs; in compensation, the Hindu state would be given $26 million for a new capital, and in addition would be ceded a part of the Punjab's fertile Fazilka precinct containing 114 Hindi-speaking villages...