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...Pakistan's President Agha Mo hammed Yahya Khan was loath to let Mujib attain power in the central government, and he was even less inclined to grant greater autonomy to East Pakistan. The subsequent crackdown by Pakistan's army, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of East Pakistanis, has made a political settlement even more remote...
...greater tragedy, of course, is that the wanton shooting of police inevitably leads to more violence and even reprisals. Already New York and Washington police have beefed up their patrols in potentially dangerous areas. If the attacks continue, it is the innocent who stand to suffer for the crackdown provoked by the fanatic...
Daniel Steiner '54, General Counsel to the University, said that the crackdown is an effort to protect students from unreliable, fly-by-night charterers, who sometimes use little-known airlines or cancel flights at the last moment...
...attack from his erstwhile admirers for his administrative failures and his increasing reliance upon Moscow, which keeps some 30,000 "advisers" in Cuba to help run things. Last week Fidel was smarting as a result of the most intense criticism to date from leftist intellectuals for his Soviet-style crackdown on a Cuban poet named Heberto Padilla...
Peace Committee. The West Pakistani government has good reason to fret about its image. Since the crackdown on the breakaway state of Bangla Desh began late in March, at least 200,000 have died-almost all of them Bengalis. In addition, more than 1,500,000 Bengalis have fled to India, and those who have stayed behind are threatened with an approaching famine that the government does not seem anxious to combat. Most outside observers have laid the responsibility for the East Pakistani tragedy to the hobnail-tough martial law imposed by Lieut. General Tikka (meaning "red hot") Khan...