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...months after the Indo-Pakistani war that created the new nation of Bangladesh, the two principals-India's Indira Gandhi and Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto-will hold a long-anticipated summit meeting this week in the Indian mountain retreat of Simla, north of New Delhi. At issue between them is the question of an international boundary line in the disputed state of Kashmir, which has been about equally divided between the two countries since 1949. Mrs. Gandhi will likely propose that the cease-fire line that existed in Kashmir before the December war continue as the boundary...
...affairs on the Indian subcontinent cannot be fully put in order without Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who has declined to attend the summit until Pakistan recognizes his country. Bhutto last week may have been preparing the way for recognition when he observed that Pakistan would become "odd man out" at the United Nations this fall if it still refuses recognition to Dacca...
...seriousness of the matters at stake. If the world is ever to achieve peaceful development, it will come more through the success of ventures like UNCTAD than through Nixon-Brezhnev talks. Until international trade relations have been established on an equitable basis, the tragedies of Viet Nam and Bangladesh will go on repeating themselves. A more incisive analysis of UNCTAD's failure would have been appreciated...
...Bangladesh, the film of the concert. Charles Cinema...
Scenes like this make The Concert for Bangladesh more than a souvenir supplement to a record album...