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...breakup of Pakistan and the country's humiliating defeat in war by India; of an internal hemorrhage; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Yahya seized power in 1969, while commander in chief of the armed forces, promising a quick return to democratic rule. But when East Pakistan's Sheik Mujibur Rahman won the 1970 national election and demanded broad autonomy for the long neglected eastern wing of the country, Yahya refused to yield power; Sheik Mujibur was arrested and civil war broke out. Yahya's troops began a wave of massacres and atrocities against civilians in the occupied East that...
...Director and confidant Bert Lance most of his shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million, a price far above the market value; other Arab moneymen reportedly arranged a loan for Lance of about $3.5 million. In another case, a group of Arabs, led by a shadowy sheik named Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi internal intelligence, touched off a confusing imbroglio in Washington by trying to take over 55-year-old Financial General Bankshares Inc. With assets of $2.3 billion, the holding company owns a chain of twelve banks stretching from Tennessee to New York. After...
...economics experts told the ministers at the beginning of the meeting that world oil production is now about 1 million to 2 million bbl. per day greater than demand. The excess output is acting as a restraint on countries wishing to push the price of oil ever higher. Said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, after the meeting: "The agreement does not impose restrictions on others not to raise their prices. But I don't think they are going to raise prices because of the downward trend of the markets...
...DIED. Sheik Mohammed Ali Ja'abari, 80, mayor of the West Bank town of Hebron (pop. 60,000) for 36 years and a power in Palestinian Arab politics under successive British, Jordanian and Israeli administrations; after a long illness; in Hebron. Ja'abari was one of the few important West Bankers willing to deal with the Israelis after the 1967 occupation, but his inability to prevent the Israelis from establishing settlements near Hebron weakened his rule and he resigned...
Immediately after the Hebron attack, a round-the-clock curfew was imposed on the city's 50,000 Palestinian residents. The mayor of Hebron, Fahd Qawasmi, the mayor of nearby Halhul, Mohammed Milhem, and the Muslim religious judge of the Hebron area, Sheik Rajab Bayud Tamimi, were blindfolded and put aboard an Israeli helicopter, which deported them to southern Lebanon...