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...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 Dan Coggin covered the nine-month Pakistani civil war last year and was in Dacca in December to witness the triumphant entry of Indian troops. Last week he returned to the new capital to assess the pace of reconstruction. His report...
There are other very good scenes: Nicholas on his knees apologizing to Alexandra for abdicating; Lenin's triumphant entry into the St. Petersburg train station where he has come to seize the power that was "lying on the streets waiting to be picked up;" the beginning of the First World War just before Intermission, where pictures of Europe's diplomats and monarchs disolve into each other to the sound of marching soldiers and national anthems...
...Italy's history--thirty years too late. Painful though it may be for a man like De Sica to shoulder the burden of his country's guilt in making such an apology, the balance against sentimental but ineffective nostalgia is only preserved by the counter-weight of the triumphant re-emergence of De Sica...
...Comet's door opened, the first gun of a 21-gun salute cracked through the air. Then Mujib, looking thin but surprisingly fit despite his nine-month ordeal in a Pakistani prison, began a triumphant, two-hour ride through city streets to the Dacca Race Course. There, as a cheering crowd of half a million showered him with rose petals, Mujib enjoined them not to seek revenge for the 3,000,000 Bengalis slain by the Pakistani army...
...threat. Though upset over many of the President's policies, the conservative wing of the party has so far been loyal. Ashbrook gives them another option. He claims not to be interested in winning the presidency, just in "reforming" the President. "We have seen him lead the triumphant charge of the Red Chinese into the United Nations," said Ashbrook. "We have seen our ally of 30 years' standing, Nationalist China, cynically expelled while we stood by and did effectively nothing." He accused Nixon of dangerously paring the defense budget, while running up the "largest, most outrageous string...