Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started when India and Pakistan, hostile ever since their split five years ago, decided that passports would be necessary for travel between the two countries. The rumor spread that the frontier would be permanently closed, leaving minorities on each side at the mercy of old enemies...
...inhabitants are Hindus. Since 1950, when fanatical Moslem mobs ran amok killing Hindus and destroying their property, the Hindu minority in East Pakistan has lived in fear. After the 1950 riots, India and Pakistan agreed to protect each other's minority groups and to permit unlimited free travel between East Bengal (East Pakistan) and West Bengal (India). Under cover of this agreement, trade (and smuggling) between the two countries flourished to such an extent that some Hindus unwisely began to speak of a reunited Bengal. That was when Pakistan decided to restrict free travel; India thereupon decided to meet...
...governments got together, decided to relax the new passport regulations for 15 days. It was a breathing space. No one was optimistic enough to think that in so short a time the masses of India and Pakistan could be made to understand the meaning of that mystery of modern travel, a passport visa...
Barnaby has to decide in the fall what most of his spring lineup will be since the players face varsity opponents in the spring before they have much time to play off for squad positions. The team which will travel south during spring vacation to meet the year-around southern college players has been practically decided upon already by Barnaby on the basis of inter-squad play this fall...
After concerts in Sanders Theatre on December 4 and 5, the chorus will travel to Connecticut Wesleyan to sing the "Messiah" with that college's chorus...