Word: yahya
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...nervous Middle East, Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat clung to a precarious cease-fire and flirted warily with proposals to ease tensions, while talking as pugnaciously as ever. Whatever the merits of their long-range goals, Pakistan's President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan (now deposed) and India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi brought more suffering to the subcontinent, he by turning his troops loose in a murderous rampage against rebellious Bengalis in East Pakistan...
ANGER over its humiliating defeat by India boiled into street demonstrations throughout Pakistan, rumors of an impending coup d'état by younger army officers against the government of President Mohammed Agha Yahya Khan swept the country. As expected, Yahya last week became the highest-ranking casualty of the war: to forestall further unrest, he hastily surrendered his powers to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 43, the ambitious leader of West Pakistan's powerful People's Party. Bhutto, the first civilian to lead his country in 13 years, launched his presidency with a move calculated to appease the wounded...
...change of power came none too soon, for Yahya had found himself the principal target of a terrible national fury. In Peshawar, an angry mob burned him in effigy and set aflame a house they thought he owned. Outside President's House in Rawalpindi, a band of sobbing wives and sisters of captured Pakistani soldiers threw down their gold and silver bangles in a bitter symbolic gesture: Yahya had taken their men, so now he could have their jewelry...
Game of Drunkards. The former air force commander in chief, General Mohammed Asghar Khan, demanded a public trial for Yahya, adding, "If someone had asked how to destroy Pakistan, there could not have been a more perfect way." A veteran army officer, with tears in his eyes, told TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar: "How can men have confidence in Yahya Khan when he is such a drinker and womanizer? We are being punished by God for departing from the ways of Islam." Pakistanis who had proudly listened to the steady din of a patriotic song on the radio...
...destroyers and amphibious ships from the Seventh Fleet sailed into the Bay of Bengal. Although Soviet vessels were reported to be moving toward the area, word of the U.S. move touched off a storm of anti-American demonstrations. In Calcutta, angry protesters burned effigies of Richard Nixon and Yahya Khan. The Seventh Fleet action was justified by the Navy on the grounds that it might have to evacuate American civilians from Dacca. (As it turned out, most of the foreigners who wanted to leave were flown out the same day the carrier left Vietnamese waters by three British transports...