Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investment interests controlled by Stonehouse, and the managing director of his trading company, Global Imex, both resigned last summer claiming that Stonehouse owed them $35,000. Stonehouse put a country house that he bought two years ago up for sale and closed Global Imex's office in Bangladesh. It was apparently in search of additional financing for his beleagured companies that Stonehouse flew to Florida in November...
...Learn-From-the-People's-Liberation-Army Secondary School in Hangchow, kids were able to give pretty detailed accounts of the history of Bangladesh, say. But those answers about Cuba still came back to me a few times. Once when someone was explaining how the landlords had finally done an about-face and adopted Confucianism to safeguard their privileges, I asked why this hadn't happened sooner. "Well," the man explained, "they needed it to prevent revolts." Had there been a big wave of revolts? "There were constant revolts, all along." Then why just then? He gave me a pitying...
Some of the discussions' contents were a little different from those of more official gatherings, too. No one said it had been wrong for China to support Pakistan during Bangladesh's war of independence, for example, but no one said it had been right either. When I asked about the leading cadres we'd been meeting, someone said, "They are a phenomenon of China." Someone else said, "They probably feel that things are too complicated, this way they oversimplify." And a third said he was production leader on his commune and if we'd come to a formal meeting there...
...home last weekend, some, at least, were dogged by an uncomfortable awareness that the twelve-day meeting had produced more food for thought than for the starving millions whose chances of survival diminished with the passing of each wasted day in Rome. Toward the end of the conference, former Bangladesh Food Minister Amirul Islam tried desperately to focus the attention of the farsighted reformers on the immediacy of the task before them. At a press conference, Islam announced that 100,000 people in his impoverished, famine-stricken country had died in the previous six weeks, and that unless immediate emergency...
...These are really special circumstances," Praveen Manjunath '76, spokesman for the South Asian Society, said. "Between 500 and 1000 people die in Bangladesh every day and it costs $400 a ton to ship wheat from Canada to the country." Manjunath said the group hopes to raise...