Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, as TIME Correspondent William Stewart reported last week from Dacca, the Bengalis have a homeland, but they do not yet have a united country. "The present government, fearful of opposition, devotes itself to patronage rather than crisis; the government of reconstruction and reconciliation has yet to appear. If it...
During the nine months of struggle in Bangladesh, the real freedom fighters, the Mukti Bahini, battled as best they could with little outside aid. The Mukti resent the fact that the government has given them few jobs and little patronage, and they have retained most of their firearms. Ranging from...
The birth of Bangladesh two months ago sent the hopes of 78 million Bengalis soaring in expectation of a bright future. But now the early rapture of freedom is fading, and the Bengali mood is growing subdued in the face of the new country's enormous problems. TIME Correspondent...
The nation seems more intent upon recounting past horrors than on reconstruction. Daily newspaper stories of the Pakistani massacre-Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman estimates it claimed 3,000,000 lives-rate bigger headlines than the problem of rebuilding the 150 factories destroyed or disabled. When Indian forces leave on...
Confession. In the post-mortems on Attica, one strange episode has been the appearance of Kenneth Moore, 28, a tall, bearded black recently sentenced to five to 15 years for killing a policeman. At Christmastime, Moore confessed that he drove the Mustang in the 1965 robbery. He says he stole...