Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar peripatetic standards, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Moscow last Wednesday on the first leg of a three-week trip that will take him to more than a dozen countries in Europe, South Asia and the Middle East. One achievement is certain: en route (probably between Bangladesh and Pakistan) Kissinger will break all known records for long-distance diplomacy by logging his 200,000th mile of State Department travel. Other triumphs, however, may be considerably harder...
...declined. In the two years that followed I wrote two books, organized a course at Harvard, served on the U.S. delegation to the U.N. and stayed out of politics. Then the President called to ask me to go to India. As I had publicly disagreed with him on Bangladesh and had declined to endorse him in 1972, I felt that his offer was a genuine reflection of his policy interests, and one I could accept as an independent person. The wisdom of having done so becomes less certain with time, but there was a rationale at the beginning...
Fourteen other nations are potential members of the club: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Libya, North Korea, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Venezuela. Though they are not nearly as advanced as the first group, they could become atomic powers by the end of the century-and sooner if they decide that it serves their interests...
...Ford Administration has an opportunity to gain some ground in the Third World. India was singed by Nixon's pro-Pakistani "tilt" during the 1971 Bangladesh war, but New Delhi dealt sympathetically with his departure nevertheless. Indian Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh went out of his way to say that Nixon's "action in resigning is in the best tradition of democracy...
Late Night Movies are hard to find in Cambridge, save at the Orson Welles. This weekend's midnight presentations are only so-so. George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh is okay so far as concert documentaries go; Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury is an action-packed waste of time, suitable only for the hard-core...