Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant adventurer best known for his aborted 1971 hijacking of a Pakistan Airlines plane supposedly for the purpose of sending food to Bangladesh. He is also a mercenary who has fought in Biafra, Yemen, Angola and Nigeria...
...each U.S. Catholic fasted for one meal a week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal of the century." Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, called on the U.S. to send food abroad now, to be followed by technical aid. Each...
ASIA, on the other hand, has seen the return of the monsoons in much of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which is moving toward self-sufficiency in food production. Bumper rice crops are expected in Thailand and Taiwan this year...
...another point in the article, I am quoted as saying "people there hate you if you are westernized, they think you are snobbish." Once again I don't recall having said exactly these words. I did say that people in Bangladesh disliked snobbishness and exclusiveness on part of the students. As far as this snobbishness was associated with being Western, then Mr. Kaplan's statement is partially true. However I did not imply that people back home hated me because I was Westernized, which is the impression one gets from the article...
M.S.F. prepares its volunteers for the special hazards of their service by holding evening courses at a Paris hospital in such subjects as tropical medicine, parasitology and treating war wounds. But experience itself is the best tutor-and reward. Said one veteran of Biafra, Beirut, Bangladesh and Peru: "You find yourself really living up to your medical vows, not just being a cog in a machine. You are continually improvising, and when you succeed, you feel you've really accomplished something...