Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population growth in a world with limited resources. Newspapers have stopped running those heart-wrenching pictures of malnourished babies in the Third World; we seem to have reached a tacit agreement that if the Green Revolution could not feed the world, nothing can. People will go on starving--in Bangladesh, in the Sahel, on the outskirts of every large Third World city--and the best we can hope to do is buy time until things get really serious, and save ourselves when they...
That, in fact, is exactly what the military leaders promised. The army ruled Pakistan from 1958 until the 1971 civil war, which ended with the secession of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). This time the officers show no inclination to stay in power any longer than necessary. In his broadcast to the nation, Zia declared that the army would guarantee elections in October and then return the country to civilian rule...
When I entered this University in 1970, American bombers were carpeting Vietnam and Salvador Allende had just been elected president of Chile. During the past four years, millions starved in Africa and Bangladesh, more Vietnamese were dismembered by bombs made in Wisconsin's dairy hills, and the Chilean president who had quickened the hopes of his people was lowered into an unmarked grave in a Santiago cemetery...
...last week, firmly convinced that his own time to fade had not yet come. But Bhutto's troubled and unhappy nation was plunged into its worst political crisis since the 1971 civil war, which ended in the breakaway of its eastern sector to become the independent country of Bangladesh...
...down to honest defeat, the Pakistani Prime Minister is reaping the bitter fruits of what was almost certainly a dishonest victory. Bhutto had called elections for much the same reason as the Indian leader. Hand-picked by the generals after Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war over Bangladesh, he had ruled ever since under a state of emergency that, among other things, gagged the press and outlawed political assembly. Last January Bhutto called for elections to give his government a stamp of legitimacy; at the time, his victory seemed a safe bet, since the opposition was fractured...