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...Trump Card. On the one hand, Bhutto insisted that East Pakistan remains "an inseparable and indissoluble part of Pakistan" and demanded an end to the Indian occupation in the East. But then, in a notably conciliatory appeal to the East Bengalis, he asked them "not to forget us, but to forgive us if they are angry with us. Yes, mistakes have been made, but that does not mean that a country should be dismembered." Indeed, he added that he would settle for "a very loose arrangement within the framework of one Pakistan...
...future negotiations with the new government of Bangladesh (see following story), Bhutto has a strong trump card: "Mujib" Rahman has been imprisoned in West Pakistan since last March. Bhutto may well use Mujib's release as the price for getting back the 60,000 Pakistani soldiers who are held captive by the Indian army in Bangladesh. Last week Bhutto ordered Mujib moved from a prison to house arrest in a more comfortable bungalow, and said that he was ready to begin talks with Mujib shortly...
...were to remove the mask of conformity behind which he tried to hide his blackness and was doomed if he did not, so was the fate of the California prison system seemingly sealed by Robert Jackson's son. However, the system was still dealing, and the ace of trump was still in the deck...
...them at war's end by seizing South Sakhalin, the Kurils, the Habomais and the islands of Shikotan off Japan's northern coast. Of course, with U.S.-Japanese relations deteriorating and with Chinese hostility directed against both Moscow and Tokyo, the Soviets may yet decide to play a trump card by returning at least the Habomais and Shikotan...
...only thing which Americans might be lacking, and which he is determined to provide, is the will to victory. If the American people refuse to accept further U.S. combat deaths, then another means of victory must be found. American airpower and Vietnamization are two of Nixon's three trump cards. The third-nuclear weapons-he has said he will not hesitate...