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Estimates of the death toll in the army crackdown range from 200,000 all the way up to a million. The lower figure is more widely accepted, but the number may never be known. For one thing, countless corpses have been dumped in rivers, wells and mass graves. For another, statistics from East Pakistan are even more unreliable than statistics from most other places (see TIME Essay). That is inevitable in a place where, before the refugee exodus began, 78 million people, 80% of them illiterate, were packed into an area no larger than Florida...
...midtown area was inundated with prostitution." The girls received some unexpected support: Women's Liberationists quickly picketed the courthouse, protesting female exploitation. But the resultant publicity could not have been better for Mayor John Lindsay, who was at the same time launching the city's ritual annual crackdown on the sidewalk sirens...
...crackdown, all agreed, was the most spectacular in recent years. Newspapers had a field day. Reformers experienced the self-righteous glow of success. But like most efforts to stem the tide of human nature and commerce, the effort was ultimately doomed. By week's end many of the girls were back at their posts, dodging police patrols with gazelle-like speed, if not grace, and immersed once more in their work...
...refused to reveal the sources of the new accusations. "My information comes from intelligence sources in Saigon," he said. "My concern is due to the fact that this is hard intelligence, which has been developed for months, and nothing has been done." He added: "There has been a crackdown by the South Vietnamese, especially against the customs officials. But who do you think is moving this stuff? Porters? We've made some progress. Now we're at the point where we must move against the kingpins...
...Pakistan army's crackdown on East Pakistan last spring has resulted in the deaths of as many as 200,000 Bengalis. Another 6,000,000 have fled across the border, saddling India with a massive refugee problem...