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MOST U.S. citizens pay little or no atten- 'piece' of paper in the place be locked in a
safe at night."
lion to the Central Intelligence Agency. All of that, of course is standard proce
That, naturally, is. exactly the way the dure for ,any "spy sour .
"spook agency" wants it. For one thing, In a generally critical treatment, Mc-
there's not much point in one's being a spy (7ari ey cites a CIA critical That was its
if somebody is looking over his shoulder all stealing of the Soviet Union's Sputnik while
Th fist
the time.
Some notice in the news is inevitable.
Every few days, it seems, somebody issues a
. charge that the CIA controls the govern-
iiient say, om Pari5l=a"?ii~izrillS this is fol-
lowed by a countercharge that the CIA not
only controls the government but that it also
controls the government's opposition.
The supposedly super-secret agency sup
posedly has performed a variety of missions
in Southeast Asia. It has a variety of agents,
allegedly- uses special purpose aircraft, and
so on. Most complaints a ainst the agency
are to the effect that it doesn't just gather
intelligence, but also engages in political and
hacl made in alarnung . ascov -'- j
".i i_..-... w. ,.. 1 -1nrrlc
agent, Patrick Mc(arvey. IIe noies, as
d' - that at
What most of these critics ignore is the
plain fact that somebody has ordered these
activities. The CIA still bears the stigma of
its almost unbelievable bungling in the disas-
trous Bay of Pigs "invasion." The truth is
that the late President John if. Kennedy
knew all about it in advance.
The problem has perhaps been best ex-
plained by Sen. John Stennis, chairman of
the Armed. Services Committee..He once
said: "If we are going to have a CIA, and we
have to have a CIA, we cannot run it as a
quilting society or something like that."
Alleged "shortcomings" of the agency
have been presented in a book, CIA-The
Myth d the Madness. Its author is a former
;onstantly prowling the dark corridors a
lriI Moreover, ,they insist that ever
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it was on a world tour in i9o0. I
earth satellite was returned after three hours
of undetected inspection by a CIA team. 1
Perhaps McGarvey could have cited other
bright spots except for the fact that no one
agent knows too much about what other
agents are up to. The CIA reviewed the book
before publication, as provided by the secre-
cy agreement it makes with all agents. It
made only a few deletions, and those for
security reasons.
Maybe the people who really run the i
CIA know about other outstanding feats but, ..
nevertheless, would prefer that they not be`
recalled in the public prints. /
'I. 'hey might even have celebratc;cl''the
Sputnik coup with vodka toasts. SGeretly.
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CAMBODIA-LAOS
The New York.Times reported
Indonesia has admitted it is training 60
Cambodian soldiers in commando
techniques in preparation for fighting the
people in Cambodia. When the U.S. embassy
in Jakarta was asked if the U.S. was paying
the cost of training the' men, an American
official replied: "No comment...... Pathet
Lao forces in Laos continued to move-in on
the large CIA base at Long Tieng.during the'
last week in March. The liberation fighters
have won so many victories that, "Both
American and Laotian officials fear that if the
defenders of Long Tieng were overwhelmed..
the morale of the irregular forces and the
56,000 other (puppet) troops would be
shattered.... Americans concede a collapse
in morale could prove to be an in-
surmountable ornhton, " .
` BANGLADESH
Sheik Mujibur Rahman, head of the Awami
League regime in Bangladesh, has ordered his
police to "shoot down" leftists who "engage in
creating confusion and trouble" and blocking
his reconstruction efforts. At the same time,
reports of massive corruption in the highest
government circles and of factions forming in
opposition, to each other within the Awami
League continue. UPI reported several
thousand people demonstrated in Dacca, the
capital. March 31, "against what they charged
were malpractices in the distribution of relief
food and supplies." The New York Times
reported "some people are using the word
'chaos' to describe the workings of the
government." Some in the Awami League, the
Times charged, "have taken over truckloads of
relief food in daylight, selling it later to the
highest bidder .... Into'the vacuum created by
the absence of effective government at' the
local level have stepped several factions
competing for power-Awami League
politicians, student groups, former guerrilla
leaders with armed followings, trade unions
andCommunists, whose activities are reviving
with Soviet.aid" .:.. Meanwhile in Los Angeles,
Calif., last month, Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani
scholar who is one of the Harrisburg 7
defendants. charged Sheik Mujib "has been on
the payroll,of the CIA for 15 years," according
.to a Los Angeles News Advocate quote. The
News Advocate continued: "Ahmad said that
Ysef Harson, a West Pakistani industrialist
and trustee of the Chase Manhattan Bank who
lives in New York, is (Mujibur's) contact. many:
J
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Campaign bySoviet
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insBengaliFriends
By SYDNEY H. SCIIANBERG
Special to Tne New York 'rimes
DACCA, Bangladesh -Not The Soviet Union backed American aid and a strong 'l
U
only have the Russians come,
but they have a two-month head
start on the Americans, who
have only now recognized
Bangladesh.
. While American diplomats
'sat in unhappy isolation in Dac-
?ca, waiting for Washington to
act, the Russians were travel-
ing around the countryside,
rnakin speeches and winning
Bengali friends.
Moscow's campaign to widen! From the evidence so far, it
Its influence in this new nation would seem that the Soviet goal.
.S. Move Is Welcomed
the winners -- the Indians and American presence here-
the Bengalis - and thus have almost desperately - to avoid i DACCA, Bangladesh, April 511
had an open field so far in becoming overly dependent on (UPI)---Sheik Mujihur Rahman~
the new nation. the Soviet Union and India. today welcomed United States
Some nervous cold-warriors Before Sheik Mujib left on
speak of a threat of Soviet his trip to Moscow a few weeks
subversion here, but other ago, he appealed to Washing-
foreign observers suggest that ton through the United States
to subvert the present Govern- mission here for some clue to
ment would only produce polit- its intentions. He wanted to
ical chaos and leave Moscow have some bargaining power
holding a hot potato, when he sat down with the
skillful and ever etie. _--- ------- ".. I- -u-cu A.auvu~ is- independent state. I hoe this
g. another stanch friend on lief operations for some assur- p p
'Soviet propaganda articles,' China's southern flank, while ante brat the United Nations will open a new chapter in the
many of them virulently anti-; making life as difficult as pos- would undertake the crucial sal? development of friendly coop-
' American, appear frequently one sible for the United States here. vage operation to clear Chalna oration and understanding be-
the editorial pages of the Ben-i "We don't want to make and Chittagong harbors of tween the United States and
gali newspapers. Bangladesh Bangladesh anti-American," one mines and sunken hulks so that Bangladesh for the mutual ben-
television carries three or four efit of our two peoples."
Russian films a week, some of Soviet diplomat said with a relief supplies could start mov The Prime Minister also said,
smile. "But at the same time, ing more swiftly into the coun
them propaganda documenta- I take this opportunity to
~v? don t want it to be pia- try. No answer was forthcom-,
ries and other feature films, thank. the people of the United
American or pro-Chinese ing from United Nations head- States. and the press, for their
such as "The Cranes Are Fly- either." quarters in New York.
ing. The result was that the Rus-Isupport to our legitimate aspi
C.LA. Plot Is Charged The Soviet Union recognized rations during our war of lib-
Bangladesh on Jan. 24-the suns got the salvage contract, ?
Articles about the United, first major power to do so. The and are now reportedly offer-ieration.
States Central Intelligence Russians have sent trade and Foreign Minister Abdus Sa-
lag the Bengalis military planes! ?
Agency have begun to dot the youth and cultural experts here, mad referred briefly to the
Bengali press. One with a ban- many of whom speak fluent as well as assistance in repair--United States recognition and
,nor headline in a leftist paper. Bengali. They have been tour- ing and expanding airfields. The hailed it as "a victory of the
described an alleged plot to kill; ing Bangladesh, giving speeches latter offers are still under dis- freedom-loving people of
Sheik M.ujibur Rahman, the at universities and in other cussion in the Bangladesh Gov-I America."
Bangladesh Prime Minister. forums. Bangladesh - Soviet ernment. Mr. Samad expressed the.
Western observers also . saw a friendship societies are pro-I The Bengalis art% iwRre tTnt I hope that "this will make wme
ters to newspapers demanding
that the Government "close the
illegal American mission" here.
The Soviet Union used to
have a consulate general in
Dacca with a staff of about 40.
It now has an embassy with a
staff of 70 or 80 and growing.
In contrast, the American
consular staff shrank to under
20, since officials evacuated
during last year's guerrilla
struggle and Indian-Pakistani
war were not replaced.
More important, the Amer-
icans have been living in a
diplomatic limbo. Because in
the absence of recognition, the
Bangladesh Government re-
duced the status of the con-
sulate to a mission.
Nixon Policy a Factor
All this stemmed from Pres-
ident Nixon's support of Paki-
stan throughout last year's at-
tempt by the Pakistani Army
to crush the Bengali autonomy
movement and during the
Indian-Pakistani war, out of
which emerged the independent
state of Bangladesh, in what
was : formerly East Pakistan.
The Chinese, too, backed Paki-
"When a foreigner begins 'likely to provide will not make
speaking in Bengali to a crowd i a dent in their war-induced
here," said one Western diplo- economic crisis, and many say
mnat, "they don't care what he that only the United States can
says. They just start respecting
him."
The Russians also have been
cementing their links with the
newly legalized Communist
party of Bangladesh and other'
moderate leftist groups, while
keeping a watchful eye on the
more radical Maoist elements,
which might be expected to try
to undermine the Soviet friend-
ship campaign.
It Is easy for a Westerner,
especially an American, to be-.
come uneasy about the Russian
influence here.
Phrases peculiar to the So-
viet lexicon, such as "scientific't
socialism," have been creeping
into the speeches of Bangladesh
officials, including Sheik Mujib.!;
Seek Balanced Relations I
In the vacuum In which the
Russians have been operating,
it is natural for some of their
propaganda to rub off. But
Bangladesh officials, from
Sheik Mujib on down, have
made It clear in private con-
.rrsrcat-innc tli t they went
the level otVaid the Russians area contribution to the maintenance
provide the magnitude of as-
sistance that can help Bangla-
desh move toward financial and
political stability.
Washington has pled zd over
$100-million in relief aid. Butl
all of this is being channelled)
through the United Nations and
has had no public impact as
American aid.
Although a large reservoir
of public goodwill still exists
here for Americans, American
officials were getting a little
nervous about. the possibility
of anti-American demonstra-)
tions.
The diplomats at the Ameri-
can mission were taking no
chances. They bought a pair of
large wire-cutters so that if a
hasty retreat from their six-
story building become neces-
sary, they could snip through
the fence that separates their
roof from the next one and
recognition of Bangladesh, an-
nounced yesterday, and ex-
pressed the hope that it would
lead to friendly cooperation be-
tween the two countries.
In a short statement, tie
Prime Minister said: "I am glad
to learn that the United States
has accorded formal recognition
to Bangladesh as a soveriegn,
of peace and stability in our
region." ?
News of the United States
recognition was muted as the
capital recovered from a se-
vere storm last night that
caused a seven-hour power
blackout.
Local newspapers came out
with only four pages and pub-
lished the news of the United
States recognition on the front
page in a box below banner
headlines on the storm. There'
was no editorial comment this'
morning.
slip away unnoticed through the)
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3 APR 1972
By Lee Lescaze
ilinister Sheikh il9ujibur Rah-
ntan was publicly criticized in
Dacca today for the first time
a
0 P
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police should shoot Naxalites close confident of Mujib. It
on sight. ;alleged an improbable con-
"Be careful, Mujibur Rah- spiracy of Bhashani, the CIA,
man," Bhashani said, "it is not and China against the Awami'
written. on a man's body that League rulers. During the nine-
he is a Naxalite. There is no month civil war that led to in-
since Bangladesh gained inde- saying who is a Naxalite and dependence, Bhashani and the
. endencc? nation's two Communist parties
who is not. If there are bad pledged their support to AIu-
' In the first important speech elements, arrest them and jib to insure stability while
'bf political opposition to Muji- hang them. But no one should Bangladesh sought to rebuild
bur's Awami League govern-
{nent, leftist leader Maulana
Bhashani, 92, told a rally of
About 25,000 people, "1 warn
the Awami League that if
they don't. follow the right
course. their dream will be
shattered."
The unified 'pojitical sup-
port for Mujib that existed
after independence was won
Dec. 16 has been cracking in
a'ecent weeks primarily over
inadequate food distribution
in.'the countryside and charges
that Awami League members
are abusing their.pover to en-
rich themselves.
Alen who had nothing but
a 'hut before independence are
its economy and provide food
be shot without a trial." and housing for its 75 million;
Repeated reports have people, many of whom lost all
reached Dacca of political their possessions during the
killings between members of war.
the .lwami League and fol- But these political parties'
lowers of Bhashani. In the arc acutely aware" that in the'
most recent in'eicjcnt, soldiers Bangladesh constitutional as-
as-
and A%vanii Leaguers report- the first which will , meet for!
the;
edly attacked Bhashani's sup- the frst time next holds all but':
porters yesterday at a public one of the hea455 cue seats. . Dealing
one of hall in Dinajpur. northeast of from its power base, the
Dacca. According to a gov- Awami League ' has done lit-'
ernment source, eight persons tle to insure the continued!
were killed, but' unofficial ac- support of other political i
counts nut the casualties groups but has chosen to rule
much higher. the administration, the press
Bhashani told an interview- and the nation's semi-nation-
er redently that 20,000 of his alined industrial system with
men have been killed since in- what its opponents charge
dependence but that figure is?are dictatorial methods.
discounted as grossly exagge-!
rated, even by some Bhashani'
supporters in Bangladesh,.
Bhashani 'told his cheering where communications are;
supporters. Looting by the very bad and rumors circulate,;
Awami League and its student quickly. In Dacca all reports
followers must. stop, he said, of violent clashes are hard to
The aged leader of the left
wing of the National Awami
Party also addressed himself
tp:a new, extremely explosive
issue here. Last Friday llu,jib
told a rally in Khulna that
> .roblems of law and order in
verify. -
Leftists, particularly Bha?
shani's men, fear that the
government is going to use its
present power to smother po-
litical opposition.
Bhashani and his followers'"
the countryside are largely are known to be angered by.{
caused by Naxalite (Maoist recent statements in the gov,
ominunist) bands., and..; that eranent-controlled press al-`
`" leging the problems of Bang-`
ladesh are at least partly the.
.result of vaguely described'
'conspiracies against the na
.tion. The most inflammatory
..article appeared in Bangli
Bani (Voice of Bengal) which
`is 'edited by a .nephew and
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ly move to ratify this treaty and pass the . There being no objection, the reports party
Implementing legislation n _ s o before I was President-that
were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, we should withdraw from CENTO and
as follows: SEATO. This is only a personal feeling, That
U.S. POLICY IN .SOUTI3 ASIA INTERVIEW Wrrl; PRESIDENT 813IITT0 OD' Is unless,'on reconsiderating CENTO, we can
PAIZ.ISTAN revitalize it. And I would like to strengthen
Mr. ROTH. Mr. President, the knowl- RAWAI,PINDI, PAKISTAN: FOllOwin are ex- our bilateral U.S. agreement, SEATO is of
edgeable New York Times columnist, Mr. cerpts from an interview with President turn less concern depends a on West what Pakistan happens ppenIn its au-
C. L. Sulzberger, has been traveling in Zulfikar Alf Bhutto of Pakistan conducted in it the East.
South Asia, where he has interviewed English by C.L. Sulzberger of The New York shat ROLE value OF
is II the U.N. e U. NATIONS
Prime Minister Gandhi of India, Presi- Times' gresto the victim of
dent Bhutto of Pakistan, and Prime Q. What has been the value of Pakistan of? aggression?
Minister Mujibur Rahman of Bangla- the CENTO and SEATO alliances and the A. I am sorry I used harsh words before
bilateral defense agreement with the United the U.N. but our situation was then desper-
desh. Mr. Sulzberger's reporting pro- States?
vides some valuable insights into the A. Certainly the alliances did Mot come into feel ate and I differently now. away. The U.N. has b has b I don'-
thinking of these three important lead- operation either during the present crisis or een o
dered ineffective by misuse of f tilt veto. I only
nly
ers. What they told him was of special the 1965 war. And the latest conflict, in hope the General Assembly can be made more
interest to me because of a speech on our which India was supported by another power, active under the uniting for peace resolution.
policy in South Asia that I delivered here was even more severe. Nor was there any dis- This should assume a mandatory rather than
earlier this month. pute about the fact that we were the victims a recommendatory character,
At that time I urged that we adopt a of aggression. As an ally we surely didn't ex- Q. ,Are you seeking to negotiate any new
balanced approach in South Asia. By th
pect to be e future wie hope that ourlown military don exampl?!th the United States or China, for
that I meant that we should avoid in- fellses will be more secure. A. Certainly this would be to our interest
vtlvement in the internal disputes of the We want to improve our relations with all and, as I told you, I hope something can be
region and should seek the friendship of countries but, particularly, we base our hopes done with your country. I also put the subject
all the nations located there, on new relationships with the United States, up to the Chinese, even before I went to
r. Sulzberger's dispatches offer re- a turn for the better. We are already grateful Peking on my recent trip. China already
assuring lz ergee that atcs is indeed
a for your recent actions. The enemy's on. knew there were many public demands here
slaught against West I'akiston would have for a defense pact. But when I discussed this
feasible course for us. Each of the leaders continued unabated if the United States had with the Chinese leaders they stressed that
interviewed was receptive to measures not given a firm ultimatum warning the it was Common interest rather than pacts
that. would improve relations with the hostilities must cease. The Soviet Union un- which mattered.
United States, derstood the signal and then pressed India to They pointed out that they had had a de-
Even Bangladesh Prime Minister acept a cease-fire. I know this is true. I have Yense pact with another Communist country,
Mujibur Rahman, who castigated our just been in Peking and Chou En-lai con- the Soviet Union, and now look where that
Government for "Striding arms t0 the firmed this to me. stands. They said their policy was now averse
Pakistanis who were murdms t Therefore I think that the world and my to pacts but that mutual interests were bet-
US," own people should know that the United ter and produced more binding ties.
stressed his determination that Bang- States, in the interests of peace, and civilized And I must admit we saw this ourselves in
ladesh maintain a nonalined- position conduct among states, did put its foot down. CENTO and SEATO. India marched into
that would permit friendly ties with all If there had been no U.S. Intervention, India Dacca on the back of the Soviet Union and
nations, including the United States, would have moved hard against Azad Kash- certainly CENTO should have acted. And
In my earlier speech, I also pointed Out mir (the part of Kashmir under Pakistani In developing our foreign policy now we must
that one of the major hindrances to good control] and also on the southern front in henceforth assume that India is no longer
relations with both India and Pakistan Sind. acting Independently but makes all its moves
WA ion provision th b h I di to td P Court- Unfortunately, under the supine and stupid in accordance with its 1971 treaty with the
wits. I of time and our leadership of Yahya Khan [the previous Soviet Union. We must assume that they are
again president, now under arrest] our people acting irxconcert.
participation in the arms trade had in- were given no direction. They were subject- COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS
volved us in the longstanding quarrels of ed to confused and contradictory orders that
India and Pakistan. could only have been issued under the swa Q. What have you lost by leavhtg, the
That these dangers are still with us of Svengi. y commonwealth?
becomes very, clear from reading Mr. ' VALIDITY OF TREATIES A. When I was Foreign Minister I saw the
necess of analyzing trens and
Salzberger's interview with President Q. Do you regard the two alliances and the ba
singipoIicy on them. Thustoneecould see the
Bhutto. The Pakistani leader stated bilateral pact with the U.S.A. as still valid? American mood as turning against pacts
.plainly that he hoped to het American A. Certainly they remain legally valid. But and wanted to recast policy from the bases of
aid to rebuild Pakistan's armed forces, politically and militarily they have become the nineteen-fifties. Balance of payments
No doubt our Government will sooner or Ineffective, i do not plan to make any formal position was bad. There was the horror of
later be forced to decide whether to pro- changes in our own relationships. i would Vietnam, a feeling that the U.S.A. was over-
late the arms Mr. Bhutto whether t prefer to leave the final determination on stretched, a refusal to be a world policeman,
g? these questions to the National Assembly, Likewise Britain felt overstretched and saw
vid is The case for doing so is a weak one, especially while Indian forces continue to that it belonged to Eurone. It was no longer a
It will be difficult to justify new arms occupy part of West Pakistan and all of the great power and could not even hope to play
shipments on the grounds we have used East. But my personal view is that the bi- Greece to the American Rome because. the
in the past; namely, that we are combat- lateral understanding with the United States U.S.A. understands the game better.
Ing Communist expansionism and that can be kept intact-with a clearer under- Thus it was inevitable for Britain to change
we must support those who are allied standing of each country's obligations. This its position. And Commonwealth conferences
with us against the Communist threat, will require a meeting of minds, and also are useless. They just let off steam and
some redrafting. After all, a qualitative Vernom. I'd rather
In his remarks Mr. Bhutto makes
l
c
ear
work out problems on a
that he wants arms for Pro not change has taken place in this region since more rational, bilateral basis. I want to im-
against China or the Soviet tClulna but vet Union Thisigall wsyIndia, a chanceSo
to grow ulturally. Bait Bwe a won't reopen the
against India. And insofar as existing create greater havoc in the entire area from Commonwealth chapter.
alliances are concerned, M1?. Bhutto says Nepal to Afghanistan, Iran and the Persian Q. What was the upshot of your trip to
he personally believes Pakistan ShOU]d Gulf. Our own physical dismemberment now Peking this month?
withdraw from SEATO and CENTO. The exposes other countries to arroount Indian A. China has stood by us as a" friend and
bof proof clearly lies with the ad- expansionism, neighbor in two wars, 1965 and 1971. We
burden urde s of arms shipments to explain why We must look for new arrangements. Ob- want a profound dialogue with them just
resumption would be in the interests of Asia and the
doesn't ewant tto sees a all intest Ili dr stic shift as we Peking found encouragement 1on this. one With the United Sttes. And
the United States. in Pekin
In the balance of power. And we want a The Chinese understood our viewpoint and
Mr. President, i believe that the full genuine dialogue with the United States on liked it. I found a sympathetic atmosphere
reports of Mr. Sulzberger's interviews this new situation. ,for such a dialogue.
would be great value to the many Sena- Of course we. have good and fraternal rela- Q. I have heard reports here of new troop
tors who are concerned about South Asia. tions with the other CLNTO members just movements in Kashmir and the
I ask unanimous consent that they be Britain althoughwe ,have left thy
Common ofA Y there. inghconcernIsleiIfn-
printed in the RECORD. wealth. But I feel-as I made plain in my diana are moving In And you musn't forget
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INDEPENDENT
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SEMI-WEEKLY - 190,000
Gregory aims wit at racism
At a Thursday morning
press conference in San Diego
City College's new television
studio, comedian Dick
Gregory dished out his
customary ration of acerbic
words for the way business is
"taken care of" in America.
Gregory teed off on a
variety of topics fielded from
the floor before moving on to
two performances in Russ
Auditorium at noon and 8 p.m.
Looking trim and fit despite
(or because of) a year-long
fast on fruit juices to protest
the Vietnam War and the
oppression of Third World
movements, the black activist
carried off with remarkable
dispatch one of his 300-odd
yearly college-circuit lec-
tures.
In response to a question as
to whether or not he believed a
black man could be elected
Vice-President, Gregory
lauded Senator Edmund
Muskie's honesty in doubting
that prospect, decrying in-
stead the assertions of
President Nixon and Vice
President Spiro Agnew to the
contrary. Gregory felt certain
the Vice Presidency is
someday attainable by a black
man, but added that the
election of a black woman,
i.e., Shirley Chisholm, may be t
more difficult due to con- ;
ditions of sexism which
prevail in the country in ad-
dition to inherent racism.
Gregory welcomed white .
involvement in the civil rights
movement as long as whites
were committed 'to helping,
rather than leading the cause.
He felt that not only should
unconditional amnesty be
extended to draft resisters and
deserters, but also that men
who fulfilled their obligations
should be guaranteed two full
years of unemployment
compensation if jobs could not
be secured in its stead.
Further, Gregory recom-
mended the compensation for
combat deaths should be
raised retroactively to a value
commensurate .with the in-
flation over the period of time
from World War II to present,
pointing out that the price of
an American life ($10,000) is
one of the few items which has
not increased since that time.
Gregory indicted the
hypocrisy of U.S. conduct in
the Indo-Pakistani crisis last
fall, tracing administration
commitment to Pakistan to a
full-scale G,involvement in
funding and support r the
Pakistani army.
He continued that U.S.
military is not in any sense a
humanitarian organization
and that an analysis of maps
showing U.S. military
placement of bases around
U.S. economic and natural
resource interests.
Citing a calculated distrust
of two-party politics, Gregory
dismissed any support of left-
wing candidates who fail to
eschew their affiliations with
either the Democratic or
Republican party, remarking
"...even if God himself ran as -
a Democrat, I'd haN a to sit
this one out..."
Gregory affirmed that he
nei~her smokes marijuana nor
specifically endorses its
la.galization, but attributes
widespread use of the drug to
the convenience of the family
medicine cabinet, where,
youth learns its most
significant lessons about the.;
use of narcotics. Ile places i
heavy blame on the cigarette 1
industry for concealing its
knowledge of smoking's
manifold dangers, and,
describes alcoholism as being
the primary drug problem in'
erica.
/ Using insights he has gained
during his fast, the comedian
plans to write a book on health
and nutrition which will follow
the publication of his most ..
recent work, "Dick Gregory's
Political Primer." Finally,
Gregory revealed that he likes
San Diego, if only because of
the temperate weather and
the fact that he likes to "tune
in to other things wherever I
. r
am."
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Eight more states recognize Bangla Desh
DACCA - The government of Bangla Desh under Premier Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman was recognized on Feb. 4 by eight more countries -
Austria, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, West Germany
and Israel - and Holland and Japan said they would grant recognition
soon. '
The announcements coincided with a government statement that
mass graves of persons executed by West Pakistan troops of former
Premier Yahya Khan were being unearthed in three areas of Bangla
Desh. Some bodies were tentatively identified as those of Bengali intel-
lectuals, professionals and leading citizens. Bangla Desh authorities
hve.said that the victims had been "fingered" for the West Pakistan
forces by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operatives with assistance
from Peking officials.
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0, 6i ~ PrIo that OA gave
'pon n -a . I V
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names to Pakc1nfl c4 for rS
By VICTOR PEIRLO
DACCA, Bangla Desh (By de-
layed mail) - Under the banana
trees of what was the village of
Sialbari on the northeast outskirts
of Dacca. we saw gruesome evi-
dence of the mass murder of Ben-
gali civilians by thugs operating
under instructions of the.Pakistan
Army of repression.
Piles of human bones, skulls,
whole skeletons were everywhere.
We saw arm bones, with '_ropes
tying the victims' hands together
behind their backs still intact;
pelvis bones, with scraps of the
victims' trousers.
We saw a 60-foot well filled with
skeletons of the murdered ones,
partly buried in mud and dirt from
the monsoon rains. We saw bones
split off in ways indicating tor-
tures practiced on the victims
before execution.
We saw the remnants of mud
dwelling walls, and the half-walls
remaining of the mosque - all
that was left of the burned-out
village.
There
dered victims inside the mosque village inhabitants except for one
-murdered in the name of Islam! 'fortunate escapee.
All was crudely bestial at this Thereafter the Pakistan Army
Buchenwald of colonialism-lack- used the site for continuing mass
ing the mechanization and organi- executions of Dacca students and
d
f th
h
zation of the Nazi murder factor-
ies. It was disorganized murder,
like that conducted by U.S. airmen
and troops at the endless My Lais
of Vietnam.
Leaders of the Bangla Desh
peace movement who took us
there told us some details:
The murders began March 25,
when the Pakistan Army began
its genocidal attack against the
Bengali people. The first victims
were the inhabitants of Sialbari.
The nearby Dacca suburbs of Mir-
pur and Mohammadpur are in-
habited mainly by non-Bengalis,
who had fled from India at the
time of partition 25 years ago.
.Inflamed with communal ha-
tred against the Bengalis, they
supported the Pakistan army of
suppression. With Pakistan Army
weapons and general guidance,
men among them acted as execu-
tioners. They slaughtered all the
e very ay oe
o
.workers until t
Pakistani surrender, December 16.
Students and workers were sub-
ject to mass arrest and execution,
because the Pakistan authorities
considered them to be the main
supporters of independence. Aw-
ami League and Communist poli-
tical leaders were also subject to
arrest and murder.
Truckloads of victims were tak-
en out, blindfolded and arms tied
behind their backs, to be tortured
and killed by the collaborating
murderers. Any Bengali ventur-
ing into the Urdu-speaking sub-
urbs, if spotted, was immediately
killed. Some of the Bengali intel-
lectuals murdered during the last
jays of Pakistani rule met their
end at Sialbari.
The killing was based on com-
munalism, that long-standing
blight on the political-life of the
Hindustan subcontinent. As ever,
it was egged on by imperialism,
this time, we were told, by U.S.
?imperialism via the CIA.
The Bengalis say a CIA official,
working with the Pakistan Army,
provided lists of names for execu-
tion. The Government, we were
told, has firm evidence of this,
which will'be made public when
the Government investigation of
war crimes takes place.
Later the killing spread over
the country, to the villages, as the
peasants gave aid and shelter to
,the tens of thousands of guerrillas
who took'tu'the field of battle.
Perlo was part of a World Peace
Council delegation headed by Isa-
belle Blume, veteran Belgian
peace leader, and former, parlia-
ment member. It also included
'Maria Maluenda, Chilean actress
and former Deputy; Alfred Nzo,
general secretary of the African
National Congress; Guenther Dre-
fahl, chairman of the GDR Peace
Committee; Anatoli Kutsenkov,
Soviet specialist on Indian af-
fairs; Mamoud Tobbo, Lebanese
peace activist; and Chitta Biswas,
Secretary of the Indian Peace
Committee.
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By RICK. NAG IN
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 - "The Bangla Desh ship of state
has unfurled its sails and is moving away from the dock,"
victor Perlo stated at a press conference here today upon
his return from Bangla Desh.
"President Nixon," he added, "Bangla Desh is recovering
"had better jump on board or else from the' war and the atrocities
he will fall into the sea." committed by the Pakistani
Perlo, chairman of the National army," Perlo said, "but it is in
Economics Commission of the great need of aid."
Communist Party, had -gone to He said the U.S. had special
Bangla Desh as part of a delega- responsibility to provide aid be-
tion of eight. representing' the cause of the support it gave to the
World Peace Council. It was the Pakistani mass murderers. ' The
first outside delegation to be in- U.S., he said, should ship food,
vited to Bangla Desh by the coun- medical supplies, building mater-
try's foreign minister, Ahmed ials, educational materials and
Samad Azad. spare parts and replacements for
The delegation was headed by American equipment. In addition,
Isabelle Blume, a former member the U.S. should provide free for-
of the Belgian parliament, and in- eign currency.
cluded representatives from the
African National Congress, Leb-
anon, German Democratic Repub-
lic, Chile, Soviet Union and India.
Met Mujibur Raman
The delegation met with Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister
of Bangla Desh, and the heads of
government' departments, and
.traveled extensively in the coun-
tryside.
Much aid, he noted, is now being
flown in from the socialist coun-
tries and India, and many wound-
ed are being treated in hospitals
in these countries.
Returning to normal
"Life in Bangla Desh," Perlo
said, "is gradually returning to
normal. The jute factories are
now operating at 50 percent capa-
city and by the middle of this Xear
the communication and transpor-
tation network will be completely
repaired. By the end of the year
the economy should be essentially
back to normal."
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman told
him, he said, ".We have resources,
land and people. Our job now is to
put them together."
The Sheikh also expressed deep
friendship for the American peo-
ple but was fearful of intrigue by ,J
the CIA.
Bangla Desh leaders, Perlo
said, charge that the CIA was
actively involved in the Pakistani
atrocities. The details of this in-
volvement, he said will be brought
out when the war crimes trials
are begun. War criminals and cot-
laborators, he added, are still be
ing rounded up and a full-scale
-investigatioq}s being planned.
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By DON TATE
Scripps-Howard Stall Writer
DACCA, Bangladesh - Prime Minister Mujibur
Rahman Tuesday accused the Nixon administration of
{ playing dirty during Bangladesh's fight for freedom
and showed a tough stance on ' 'epting possible U.S.
aid.
In an exclusive interview in. !.d not' Nixon have pro-
I which he twice apologized for test d it? Countries - are not,
emotion that brought him near chew pieces to be moved about.
tears, the prime Countries are people, bleeding
minister, who re- people.
turned from IM- "In my country nobody could;
nrisonment in come out in the'street. Any girl
West Pakistan who came out could be picked!
only two weeks up like this. Big businessman,
ago, told Scripps- intellectual, anybody, shot. shot,
Howard News- shot. Girls raped in front of
papers : their mothers, mothers raped in
e He's con- front of their sons ..
s vinced the Amer-
Tate "At my house, an innocent
I ican people are child of two years, saying Jai
in full sympathy with him but he
cannot understand why the Nix-
on administration "played dirty.
helping the Pakistani army with
But how could Muslims do
what they did to other Muslims?
he was asked.
"People who cannot he human
beings cannot be Muslims," Mu-
jib said. "Their soldiers are not
human beings. How can they be
Muslims?"
On socialism the prime minis-
ter said his country could
achieve socialism through "Mu-
jib-bad"-Mujib's philosophy.
He insisted it would develop
pKagmatically through Demo-!
cratic processes. Ile stressed de-1
mocracy again and again and
said: "In whatever we do, that)
will always be our guiding word.
We have seen enough of the oth-I
er way.'.
l3angia (long live nengai) was ;'stand. ... They know that noth-
kiiled and a Pakistani flag planted on its _hcad., They've. ' in,., can purchase my head,
killed a doctor, an eye special- prime minister or no prime min-
ist, by taking his eyes out ister, prestige or no prestige."
They have killed a heart ' On the practical side, he said
first
.
? He welcomes aid Ameri- specialist by taking his heart his people are destittItc but that
cans provided privately but out. They even killed the ant- aid is flowing in, that law and
doesn't want-U.S. government orals in the zoo. Were the Na- I order is essentially under con-
aid-"How can I accept it?" But zis worse than 'this. Was trol, that his own political con-
he softened that later, saying he Genghis Khan?" trol is unquestioned by all ex-
would accept U.S. aid if the On American aid the prime cept the tiniest minority of
United States recognized Bang- ? minister declared: "The Ameri- extreremists and that the ~Zukti
ladesh. can government has stopped aidxt guerrillas are beginning)
? He regards himself as fac- to India. What for? Because In-' I to lay down their arms as he re-
building an almost impossible task of dig supported my liberation H quested.
buildin a nation but he will ac- movement. Now first of all they
g
I FOOD SITUATION
complish it. (the Nixon administration) must I
"The American people are not talk with India. They must say ) On the food situation, which
against me," he said. "The they're sorry. Because India has he says could grow serious soon,
American people are in full suffered for us. Mrs. (Indira) he expressed confidence that
sympathy with me. Gandhi (India's prince minister) self-sufficiency in food could be
"What were we, fighting for? has suffered for us. We stand by achieved within a couple of
To save my people from oppres- them as a friendly country.
years once a joint flood control
sion and persecution of the Paki-' _. "I have heartfelt gratitude for program with India is worked
stani army. Did the American I the prime minister of India. She out: '
government not know? The is a great lady. My 10 million "If we can control the floods,.
American government has mis- people have migrated and she then we can produce so much
slonaries here. The American has given them food, shelter and food in our rich, fertile soil that
government has an information accommodation." we will no longer require food
ranch here. The American gov- DIRECT AID from outside."
(Agency) ee a Ccb eTihe The Asked if the American govern- As for future ties with West
cnoce te
-, branch. . T inert had approached him at all
American government gets Pakistan, 31ujib boomed,
~
every information of what is in terms of direct aid, the prime nearly spilling his tea. "Fin.
don't in Bangladesh. minister replied first: "No I
don't want it"-then softened it fished forever it is finished,
JOURNALISTS
"American journalists- avere
writing, senators were protest-
' ing. (Sen. Edward M.) Kennedy:
came here.'and protested. Why
,was the administration against
us?' This was not Vietnam. Wei
to, "How can I accept it? They we want nothing to do with
mist fiest give to India ... but tliein. You can stay with peo-
the American people are helping plc who are civilized, but you
me. They have made a citizens
committee. They are collecting cannot stay with people who
dollars. Sen. Kennedy and oth- are uncivilized."
ers. they are collecting help..I'll
T,,
mal aid from the United States l
if the American government
recognized Bangladesh, he re-
plied :
"Then, it is all right."
As for the tasks ahead, he
said he did not think any man
ever faced doing so much with
so little: "We are starting
from zero. But my people love
me and 1 love them, They will
wait. They will suffer, but
they will stand by me ..."
When he talks about his rela-
tionship with his people the pow-
er of Sheikh Mujib turns on full
volume. His voice, with its full-
throated. actors' range, half
Southern preacher, half Charles
Boyer fairly trembles with emo-
tion :
"If you speak from the heart
with sincerity the people under-
were not__fightir- ?" A.,,a,.i-ii....,,,..,..l,.,. .
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`-CARL T. ROWAN
CALCUTTA - The dispatch
out of Bangladesh says that a
"genocide enquiry
commis- sion': will be given allegations
that "the American organiza-
tion, theSJ, and the military
jadviser oT'tlie former governor
conspired in killing intellecu-
tals of Bangladesh."
One of the largest Bengali
language dailies in this teem-
ing city of 7 million people
carried this attempt to blame
the United States for atrocities
committed by West Pakistan
soldiers, reporting that "au-
thentic documents on this con-
spiracy have been recovered.
it is learned."
-., A dispatch out of Bombay
quotes "unimpeachable
'sources" as saying that "it
was the American submarine,
Fargo, which torpedoed the
(Indian frigate Khukri) in the
high seas between Bombay
and Karachi" in the first week
,of December.
This attempt to blame the
,United States for the sinking of
the Indian vessel appeared in
the Hindustan Standard, one of
the largest English-language
dailies, and in Ananda Bazar
Patrika, the Bengali daily with
the largest circulption in In-
dia. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth
Keathing called this report
.'`totally false" and pointed out
that there is no American nu-
clear submarine named Far-
o. The chief of staff of the
Indian navy told a press con-
ference recently that it was a
Pakistani submarine that sank
the Khukri.
But news stories and editori-
als continue to pin the attack.
on the U.S. Navy.
."CIA Conspiracy' to Foil
Bangladesh Revolution"
screams the headline from
Darpan, a' Bengali weekly. It
reports from Dacca, without
attribution to anyone, claims
that the. CIA and "Indian vest-
ed interests" are plotting
against the new country and
that Bangladesh has "set up a
special cell to watch on the
CIA and its agents."
These are just samples of
the journalistic fever, the
press paranoia, that evidences
one fact: U.S. relations with
India have been bad during
past crises, but they have nev-
er been worse than now. And
there is slim hope for improve-
ment very soon.
I visited Asoke K. Sarkar,
managing director and editor
of the Standard and Ananda
Bazar Patrika, the papers that
kept accusing the United Stat-
es of sinking the Indian ship
despite even Indian govern-
ment denials. I asked Sarkar
when these emotional attacks
might end - when there
might be some improvemept
in U.S.-Indian relations.
"Not as long as Nixon and
Kissinger are in power," Sar-
kar said, "and I expect Nixon
to win another term.
Sarkar's papers, like many
others, take the line that they
still like Americans but they
hate Nixon and Kissinger.
Nonetheless, the attacks 'go
far beyond the two men in the
White House, portraying the
Pentagon, as pushing a war
strategy in which Americans
incite Asians to kill each oth-
er, deploring U.S. foreign aid
as a foul attempt to buy up
countries and, of course, whip-
ping the Central Intelligence
Agency as an omnipresent, al-
most -but-not-quite-omnipotent
international ogre.
Sarkar is in fact an enigmat-
ic example of the deterioration
in Indo-American relations. He
was for years an outspoken
friend of the United States but
is now one of the most intem-
perate critics.
In mid-December the
Bengali weekly Darpan, which
has leanings toward the Com-
munist party-Maoist
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branch-had a front-page sto-
ry that "Darpan understands
from a reliable source that
Abhik Sarkar, eldest son of the
proprietor of the Ananda Ba-
zar Patrika-Hindustan Stand-
ard group of newspapers, has
been supplying unauthorized
war news to a suspicious news
agency, Asian News Service.'
Its headquarters are at Manila
and Hong Kong. Both are ju-
risdictions of the ill-famed
CIA."
Darpan claimed that only
after charges of the CIA link
surfaced did Ananda Bazar
Patrika begin to write anti-
American editorials.
Several editors and others
here say that the Communist
parties will realize what Asoke
Sarkar called "maximum ben-
efit out of this situation creat-
ed by Nixon and Kissinger."
This volatile, poverty stricken,
highly emotional state of West
Bengal is where they might
make the most of anti-
Americanism.
The Maoist branch of the
Communist party won 111
seats in the West'Bengal As-
sembly in the 1971 mid-term
poll whereas Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi's Congress Par-
ty won only 105 (total seats:
280) and had to join with the
Russian-leaning Communist
party and other s p l i n t e r
groups to form a ruling coali-
tion. That coalition fell apart
quickly and West Bengal is
now ruled from Delhi.
New elections occur here in
March and Mrs. Gandhi al-
ready is campaigning heavily
to help her party exploit her
new popularity gained in the
military triumph over Paki-
stan and the "liberation of
East Bengal."
Her party is expected to
gain several seats, but there is
uneasiness that the Commu-
nists may p a r, l a y anti
Americanism into stunning''
gains of their own.
This- fear may explain Indi
an government leaks to news
papers about "letters pouring
in" from the American people,
praising Mrs. Gandhi and de-
ploring the Nixon-Kissinger- i
policies.
"Whatever conspiracy may,
have been hatched against In-.
dia and Bangladesh by the'
Nixon administration, these
letters prove that the U.S. gov-
ernment is detached from the
people of its own country,"
says K a I a n t a r, another.
Bengali daily. '
But it may not be so easy td
steer West Bengalis away
from the simplistic notion that-,
during the - crisis "the Rus-
sians were our friends and the
Americans were our enemies,
so let's vote Communist." Ex-
cept that Mrs. Gandhi is going
to remind them that the Com=
munist party she fears most
leans to China, which was on-
Pakistan's side.
The question is whether vot-
ers will hear this distinction'
over the din of anti-U.S. rheto--
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enq-Ji.
West Bengal (India) traded'
guns, and other small arms, are refusing to
surrender their weapons to the Awami League
Maoists=-equipped with light machine guns, sten
. Today, the guerrillas-most of them are not
government or its Indian Army auies.
extensively and profitably with
'East Pakistan.. Now Calcutta
businessmen hope to resume old
business ties.
One of India's motives for
invading was fear of the growing,
leadership of local leftists in the
Bangladesh liberation movement.
These groups-virtually ignored by
the American press-wished to
create a socialist Bangladesh,
At long last-a television war. the chief South Asian adviser to independent of India as well as
Every night we watched to see i Senator Edward Kennedy, reports Pakistan. Even before the
who was winning, to count that "refugees from East Pakistan, Pakistani civil war began in March,
casualties, and to give thanks that who have entered eastern India in 1971, the East Pakistan
we wouldn't have to fight. And, . several surges beginning in 1947, C o m m u n i s t P a r t y
after a few weeks, it ended. Indian have tended to join extremist (Marxist-Leninist) had organized
troops - occupy Bangladesh political factions.... guerrilla bands, killed several
attempting "to keep the peace" . Worker's Rebellion, landlords, and distributed land to
and disarm the Bengali guerrilla Discontent among the natives the peasants. Just before the
forces. Sheik Mujibur Rahman, of West Bengal (the Indian Indian invasion the Far Eastern
? the President of : ahgladesh, is province surrounding Calcutta) Economic Review reported fierce
freed from a West Pakistan jail also threatens the authority of the fighting between the Maoists and
C after nine months of Indian government. West Bengal the Awami-League-backed
imprisonment and is returning landowners and employers have guerrillas in East Bengal.
home. hired many of the refugees, Armed Guerrillas 4
Why did it happen? What now? lowering wages and forcing many Today, the guerrillas-most of
When Indian policy-makers Indians out of work in an area them are not Maoists-equipped
decided to intervene in East with already sizable with light machine guns-, sten
Bengal - (East Pakistan or unemployment. While there have guns, and other small arms are
Bangladesh) this November, they been reports of clashes between refusing to surrender their
were . responding to a series of native wage-earners and refugees, weapons to the Awami League
economic and political crises. the real threat to India is the government or its Indian Army
Though masses of anti-Moslem, specter of a rebellion by West allies. The Mukti Bahini control
anti-Pakistani Indians had been Bengali workers. many areas of Bangladesh,
demonstrating in the streets since India has tried to contain the including the banks, the offices,
March, the war fever only made it refugees in isolated camps. The and the local treasury. A large
easier for Indian leaders to go to vernment even hired several proportion of the guerrillas are
war, thousand young men to try students who are radicalized and
Refugee Burden curbing extremist agitation in and want the struggle to be carried to
Ten ,million East Bengali around the refugee camps. Indian its logical end.-They do not want
refugees now living in India have officials contended that the any "going back" on their
been a tremendous burden on the refugees should return to their revolution.
Indian economy. Resources, homes, but the bulk of the "We want an exploitation-free,
ncludin9 foreign aid originally refugees would not return so long socialist, democratic society with
intended for India, have been as Pakistani troops occupied East social ownership over modes of
reallocated for the refugees. The Bengal. And ' as long as the production,". one of them told a
total expenditure on refugees this refugees remain in India, they ere . reporter.
fiscal year will be at least 20% of a political liability for Mrs. The Awami League elite, which
the entire Indian budget. Gandhi's government. . basked in the sunshine of the
Mrs. Gandhi's government was .7Mukti Bahini's guerrilla
worried about the potential . On the other hand, a ' operations, is now in power after.
political explosiveness of the ten Oro-Indian B a n g l a d esh nine months in the relative
'million refugees. India feared that government will be an asset to comfort of exile, in India. They
the Bangladesh struggle would India's economy. Before do not relish such talk. They
spill over into an already unstable independence in .1948, Indian would like the guerrillas to be
West Bengal. John P. Lewis, businessmen in Calcutta ran the disarmed before the Indian Army
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In Pakistani-Held Dacca, With the Indian Army
War Swirls Into a Hotel-Neutral Zone
By JAMES P. STERBA
,peelel to The i\ew York Times
DACCA, Pakistan, Dec. 20- Dacca would have tour show-
Notes on a 14-day stay in ings today of "Operation Cross-
Dacca, during the Indian-Pak!- bow," starring Sophia Loren.
stani war: A paid notice said: "Begum
rets to an- on the traffic circle in front of
all afternoon
u
fire kee
p
p
3 Badrunnessa reg
Dec.
, pounce that in view of unavoid- Father Timm, an American the American Consulate, but
"I not essential that
say it
one die of cancer or r in in a car,able circumstances the mar-ipriest, has organized basket- on are the fleeing, edges of town people
carrying what
accident. I say, why not die riage and walima receptions 11 ball games at Notre Dame Col-
doing a,fine job for your coun- scheduled for Dec. 5 and 8 re- lege here every Monday,! belo At tile gings hotel they acan.
n attendant
try and take a few of those spectively on the occasion ofWednesday and Friday since! discovers a bomb in the
devils with you." the wedding of Ruhul Amin and the crisis began months ago. If ground-floor women's toilet.
. Col. Hakeem Arshad Razia Ahmed have been called; enough people turn up this The hotel security . officer,
Lieut. 39 years old, expressed off. Inconvenience caused to the i afternoon, he says, there will ;Asgher Beg, disarms it and
the fatalism of his men best. invitees is very much regretted." be a game. !carries it out to the swimming'
His regiment, the 26th Frontier Dec. 6 Dec. 8 !pool. The word spreads through
Force, was defending Dinajpur Hotel service is fine but The hotel workers are dig- the hotel and relaxed expres-
in the far northwest against. laundry is considered a gamble ging slit trench air-raid shelters Sloes become frowns of worry.
Indian probing and shelling in now. Hugh Breadford Syme, in the back lawn near the I An hour later Red Cross of-
the morning. The Indian inva the Scottish chef, has been 1swimming pool. ficials announce that as of 5
'sion started a few hours later- cooking on charcoal to feed More bombing of the airport P.M. the hotel and the nearby
at about teatime. I about 400 people a meal since !this morning, and more and Holy Family Hospital. will be
Diplomats have only fuzzy he ran out of bottled gas two 'more cars are topped with declared neutral zones. For-
eigners awaiting evacuation
reports and military phones weeks ago. He's been here four bushes, twigs and leaves. "If and those Pakistanis already in
don't answer. The Dacca radio months and hasn't received a this keeps up, Dacca isn't going residence can stay. No weap-
announces an immediate cur- !paycheck yet. to have any foliage left," some- ens are allowed, and the big
few and blackout. There is a Six raiding planes swoop one says.
poker game by candlelight at over the hotel, dropping pods Jeff Lungu, an exchange problem is collecting all those
the Hotel Inter-Continental, that burst into orange flames medical student from Malawi, already inside.
Dec. 4 and black smoke near the air- has been here for six years try- At 5:40 P.M.. just after an-'
port runway. ing to get his degree. He was, other MIG completes a bonib
Fireworks. The first wave of A family appears on the roof evacuated in March just be- ing run, hotel workers hoist a
air raids-Indian jet fighters fore final exams, then went to wooden sign with red letters
--comes at about 3 A.M. rock- and a television correspon-
dent says: "You're crazy. ! Karachi and took his exams on the front of the hotel. It
sting and strafing. Tracers fill They're firing ack-ack around! there. reads: "Neutral Zone Interna-
the sky from ground gunners. here -you could get killed." 1 The Government flunked tional Red Cross Geneva."
The war has come to Dacca. The mother snaps, "Hey, you! everyone from schools in East Red cloth crosses are draped
By day the raids continue, can't talk to my kilns like that!" Pakistan to show standards in on the sides of the hotel,
with sorties about hourly on Gunners shoot at Indian. the Western wing were higher. At dusk a delegation of Red
the air ort a mile north of h He flew back to Dacca a week Cross officers and reporters
p planes on low passes over t e oes from room to room askin
town and adjacent to the Paki- hotel en route to the airport.' ago and, in the middle of all ?g g
;guests to turn over their guns.
stani military cantonment. With magnets, hotel workers the confusion, has been search-
Through the day there are dog-;fish shrapnel from the swim ing out professors who can Collected by P.M. 7 were 11
! pistols, a rifle e two shotguns
strafing and antiaircraft fire. Harried foreigners, their
Crows, soaring above, are'hopes for evacuation thwarted,
constantly mistaken for Indian file back into the hotel. Bernard
and Pakistani warplanes. Holt, the British manager,
Foreigners, waiting to be stands by the door In a neat
evacuated, pile into the hotel.
The hotel is filled by late after-
noon with foreigners and
frightened Pakistanis, and there
is no beer.
When it was apparent that
the Indian planes were aiming
Daccans go about bushiness as~;en her lap.: "He's doing just I- go-Korea, India, Brazil- people are advised to avoids
!usual-beggars beg, some shopskfine now," she says. there's trouble. Now here too. walking on it.
!stay open, newspapers publish i The Pakistani International My kid pulled me on the side Someone asks why room
sand tea is served at open stalls. Airlines regional director and back home once and asked me service has stopped and is i
Dec. 5 some others flew a small plane if I was an agent. I told him told: "This is a compound
The morning paper said the out to Burma last night. He if I was I couldn't tel him." now."
!"get-a-word" lottery pool com I~left a note to one of his em- Before the nighty press poker Dacca is full of traffic andi
petition was still on and the ployer's reading: "You are now game, martinis are served with people today, with many peo-
Naz Theater in do."nrnain I!the now regional manager." vermouth and olive-both rare tile leaving town. But news-
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.said good-by to them an hour Illinois, on Thanksgiving and At a Red Cross meeting Mr.
ago." was up to eighth on the list Beg, the security man, is ap-
Mrs. Douglas Townsend of when the air raids- started.- 'lauded for carrying the bomb
Dec. 7 commoo itics scrounged by a
At 1:45 P.M. the bombing growing brotherhood of trapped
starts again, and for the first souls. Marshmalows are toasted]
time white balloons attached to on the candles on the poker
'grbund cables appear over the table.
airport and cantonment, pre- Dec. 9
sumably to ensnare a low-flying
MIG. Dacca looks virtually normal
upgrade hls marks so he can and a lead pipe.
get ]is degree and return to
Malawi. Ray Matelli, Esso manager
Ra Maas, a Colonel Sanders- I for East Pakistan, worries
Ray about how he is going to col-
looking character and an ac- sect his gasoline bill from the
countant for an engineering Pakistani Army. It owes him
company, has been in East Pak- close to $1-million.
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Jo Meet
as Pakitath
Yy Lee Lescaze
Washington Post Foreign Service
NEW DELHI, Nov. 11-Paki- J't tion of the almost eight- i.ne remeates Which have
stan's President Yahya Khan rn ontli-old civil war. been casually suggested by the
has privately expressed will- The- United States report- 'United States administration
ingness to meet leaders of d`y was instrumental in help- do not have any relationship
East Pakistan's outlawed iri0 communication begin be- to the realities of the situa-
Awanti League party to dis- twceii the two sides. India, the ti on," he said in a recent inter-
cuss a political solution of the United States, the Soviet view.
civil war, according to reliable , Union and other nations have The suspicion of U.S. Inten-
sources. long urged that avenues to- 1 tions here puts into question
His ;statement has been con- i ward a political solution be ex- whether any further American
veycd to East Pakistani lead- plored to stop the bloodshed intermediary role will be pos-
ers at their Calcutta hcadquar- in East Pakistan and to reduce sible. On Oct. 28, the ruling
ters, but several major points, the threat that Pakistan's civil Working Committee of the
remain to be clarified before War will lead to a full-scale In- Awami League restricted con-
any . talks can begin, the dia-Pakis tan war. tacts with Americans by in-
sources report. Indian officials have pub- I strutting elected members of
Despite Yahya's willingness licly welcomed -American or the National Assembly not to
to open a dialogue, he has any other third party efforts make individual contact with
made it clear that not all to establish contact between foreigners.
membei,s of the East Pakistani. the Pakistani factions, How- ' , The same Working Commit-
Bangla Dcsh government in ever, Yahya's privately ex- tre meeting reiterated that it
exile would be acceptable to would accept nothing short of
him as representatives at talks pressed receptivity to talks iodependence.
between the two sides. has apparently aroused Indian. No Solution in Union
The Indian government is and Bangla Desh suspicions of' Most Indian officials also
also determined to exercise American intentions. argue that no political solu-
right of approval on any emis- Indian newspapers have re- ti it can be found which would
sary chosen by the East Paki- cently carried stories charging Iave East Pakistan within a
stani leaders, despite India's that CIA agents are seeking to united Pakistan.
public assertion that Bangla split the Bangla Desh leader- If that is the only position
Desh officials operate free of ship with the aim of arranging which Awami League mem-
Indian control. India keeps a compromise solution short begs and their Indiana patrons
close watch on the exile gov- of indpendence for East Paki- would bring to a bargaining
ernment and would presuma- stan..;. table, there would be no basis
bly want to monitor any con- Mistrust of the 'United for discussions with Yahya
tacts between the rebels and States stems from America's
continued good relations with Khan, launched his ti~ki-
Pakistan's military govern- tary rt' occupation of East Paki-
ment. Pakistan and President Nix-stan on.'s refusal. to condemn Ya- to preserve the unity of
Another unresolved ques- hya's government for its ac- Pakistan's two wings.
tion is the role of Awami The longer the war goes on,
League gue head Sheikh Mu ibur ti.ons in East Pakistan, which well-informed observers be-
Lea , who is being tried in have driven 9.6 million re.fu- lieve, the.' Less chance there
(West Pakistan for treason. His gees across the border into will be of either side moderat-
subordinates in the . Awami India, lug its position and the
League; - who, now lead-..tile No `Surrender' greater the chances of an In-
exile'government in his ab- Some Indian officials there- dian-Pakistan war.-.
?scnce, arc'rrportedly reluctant fore believe that Washington's "I don't see much hope for
to open talks: with Yahya With- primary - objective is to bail I talks reaching any real solu-
out Mujibur's consent. Yahya out of his present trou tion even now," one Western,
However, Yahya has given' ble with the least possible cost source said. "Too many people
no indication that the sheikh,' to the Pakistan regime. They have been killed and the bit-
could participate in any talks: stress that any talks must not I terness on all sides is too
unless he is first acquitted by involve "a surrender') to the great."
the military court. Nor has , West Pakistan government by -
.
Yahya agreed that Mujibur,?Bangla Desh,
could by be consulted in. rison D.
Desh r present I India's policy cytipla ninglacom-
ative. (mission and the principal in-
Nevertheless, the establish-
ment of communication be..
tween Yahya and rebel leaders
is the first evidence of any
progress toward a political so-
dian strategist on East Paki-
stan, is critical of American
attempts to help resolve the
crisis.
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NEVE BERLINER ILLUSTR'CFRTE
2 NOVEIERIXFT 1971
biirdet der WirtsdiaftIndiens zusatz-
liche unertragliche Lasten auf, welche
die Verwirklichung, der sozialokono-
Explosive Lage mischcn Programme der Regierung
Indira Gandhis spurbar verlangsamt
Die bewaffneten ZwischenfaIIe an haben
der indisch-pakistanischen Grenze
haufen sich. Die pakistanische Armee
hat in Ostbengalen Streitkrafte von
80 000 Mann an der Gene an
Indien zusammengezogen. Indien be-
rief 600 000 Researvisten ein and traf
andere Mafinahmen zur Verteidi-
gung. Premierministcr Indira Gandhi
erklarte, ihr Land unternebme ?alles
Erdenklidie, um einen bewaffneten
Konflikt zu vermeiden".
Die Kriegsgefahr auf dent Subkon-
.
Es ' gilt berths als offenes Geheim-
nis, dais side die amerikanische Ge-
heimdienst:zentrale CIA verstarkt in
Pakistan engagiert`iat. Die US-Ge-
seilschaft ?World Airways", die
ebenso win die ?Air America" end
?Continental Air-Service" in Laos
eine verkappte CIA-Firma ist, be-
fordert Truppen von West- nach
Ostpakistan. Bereits in diesem Som-
mer trafen amerikanische Militar-
beratee cin, die vie in Laos der US-
tinent, wo etwa cin Ffinftel der Botschaft zugeordnct sind and cinen
Menschheit lebt, ist nine Folge der diplomatischen Status haben. Wie
blutigen Ereignisse in Ostpakistan- kurrlich Senator Edward Kennedy
Als dieser Landesteil, der fast 2000 crklarte, liefern die USA - tkotz
Kilometer durcb indisches ? Territo- gegenteiliger Versicherungen -, Waf-
rium von den westlichen Provinzen fen and Munition nach Pakistan end
getrennt ist, seine Autonomic durch-- heizen damit die Spannung in die-
setzen wollte, cntsandte die Zentral- scm Gebiet welter an.
regierung in Westpakistan im Marz Auf der UNO-Vollversammlung hat
1971 Truppen. Sic ersttckten mit AiiBenminister Gromyko die Hal-
Wagengewalt den Widerstand in der tong der Sowjetuniof, deren Frie-
ostlichen Region, die von der Bour- densverhandlungen schon 1965 den
geoisie Westpakistans als innere pakistanisch-indischen Krieg beende-_.
Kolonie betrachtet: ui d ausgebeutet ten, dargelegt: ?Wir Sind davon
wird (siehe audi Die aktuclle NBI- fiberzeugt, daB nur auf dent Wege
Karte - Zum Konflikt in Pakistan", elites politischen Regelung der in
Heft 22/71). Ostpakistan entstandencn Fragen
Um den Verfolgungen and Repres- auch nine Entspanntmg in diesem
salicn der Armee 2u entgehen, ergoli Gebict erreicbt werden kann ... Die
rich ein Strom ostpakistaniseher FICchtlinge mussen nadt Ostpakistan
Flnchtlinge fiber die Grenze nach zurackgcbracbt werden; aber das
Indien - vor allern in den .Unions- wird nur dann moglich rein, _Venn
staat Westbengalen. Noch immer dart ihre. Sicherheit gewahricistet
fluchtcn. taglich etwa 30000 Men- ist." Andrei Gromyko gab der Hoff-
schen. Inzwischen wuchs litre Zahl nung Ausdruck, dal ?Sclbstbeherr-
auf: insgesamt fast zehn Millionen sctung find Vernunft die Oberhand
Menschen an, die moist in piimitiven behalten werden".
Lagern kampieren. Thee Versorgung j W,Iten
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a. .. 1 f t'' i 1 _J
:l
M11 kill il, ] :"013
?y
*= SADI N t Ui .? : al;,Ir'I1.
NEW DELHI, India, Aug: 31
(By airmail) --- The U.S. is re-
portedly using the case of Ban la
Dash leader Mujibur Rahnian,
now under so-gilled trial in West
Pakistan, as a bait to blackmail
the leaders of the 1_angla 'flesh
Government. Iran is the ' go-bc-
tween, and its . representatives
have already contacted 13angla
Dash representatives for a "-
,et-The main propcsal is that Ban-
gs Desh. give up its clairn for
''independence. 13augla Dish
leaders argue such a Co111proinise
would amount to a betrayal td the
cause for which so I1'uch blood has
been shed, especially i;hen 'the
freedom fighters are dealing
heavy blows against the military
junta. ilujibur lThh111an himself
has declared that if necessary a
free Ban;la flesh ''will rise on his
dead body."
Several U.S.' organizations
have become active among the
intellectuals who have fled from
Ilangla Desh and taken shelter in
India. One such organization, the
Triter natic al Rescue Committee,
headed by I~MMrs. Oswald Lord, is
reported to be spending some
$2 ,COO per month. It is already
paying handsome 'WHOWa: ces'' to
some 55 intellectuals from Bangla
Desh "for research work" and to
10 artists "for holding exhibi-
This organization Was active
among the Cuban counter-revoln-
tiOnaries and also among emigre
IIunga.rians. Mrs. Lord is known
to have links with the CIA.
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t~ 41 O ~ ~ ~i;?
BY ? d: An de;'sOn
FAULTY I + I.LLLICrENCi,
and military lefts have caused
heavy casualtie , contributed
to the Mylai massacre and
triggered other trafcciics in
Indochina.
Because intelligence reports
are highly classified, the nlis-
takes have been scrc'pt under
the secrecy label. I'hc public
is entitled to knov,, ho:.ever,
about the. terrible cost of intel?
ligence errors.
By monitoring enethiy radio
transmissions, for ' example,
the Defense . Intelliganca
Adelicy 1-earned that ltanoi
had advance knowledge of
both the, Cambodian and Laos
invasions. .
Interccpled enemy. sage; c'alind "pa inna cent-
a
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RAWALPINIDI, I akistIn,ord es favoring the colttil ::.d
March 25---An American no`. lylunit} of Pakistan, is b 'Ind the
arrived in Palast an might have present ca npaigtt for
s f dater-'
1
been suipriseci by the speech of rn_ination in E2st.Pekist. a. Ti c
c'T. right-P:ingP:+kistarti poltflCi?;illLn t'e'! Le.~ Ainb7_ rc!or, io-
at a Karachi rally Monday seph S I rlr,nd, wv e a
claiming that th United Slatesroutin e visit to Sheik Mai url
Cent n.l Intell i gc-nce Agency,Rai, .Tani, the East I iI:nstan11
Preulici? Golda Meir of I i ttellleader, in }laces on his =.-ay
and India 1 officials had team xijfrurt hand to h; n} l
ht) "to d vide Pakistan under month for medical tr_.:.,_.
the patronage of the United lies been d'eplc,eu as the a12s
State of Arrt rica, tcrnlind.
To Aillcric IS rc Idailt i0 Stn.y that rep ntly
Pakistan, end s')-_ el f'1rOLl^tl tll, louatlV v'?S
ican offiei'a.ls, such aIlegLt-inns til..L tiro Uiiit c States Si th
elicit only a weary si ru . I I leet, still re ably l e t i t-:3 to
During the 1 .. ,; yea hart l I : in the ;" CJ,t :i: l 1 1 o ll-
a day has passed w.-itnout Sonlie to:'IC~; Soviet naval streo tii,
politiciaor pullhcatlon acctTS- 1?:;il arrived
f of! in the I.:.y of
ing Amer icans ill Bald ta..n of a;_i to c. :i
? actlvit}' damaging to MoslCill't'It,ted States claini toJa aavY..i
Pakistan or to nlosl?;11 else- base. ti:eie.
~~'ll i'e oror111d Ik svorlcI. tlillh:.: < for Fa r'`a" nl ! is
attacks reflect the si; a:~vll;j,
" -~ lady I)u! h::`: cd a r. C. 1. A. a
mering acerbity that marl:'SSLIIivertll! ; I'alil -L'r.tl s
relationships between the Unit-!-often in f't'or Gf In?ilia. Ac l
CCl States and Pakistan, v 'lief proof 111 t l" and of er A ri ;.
tivcre th warmest of all c i
ica 1, in l .,,t1 1 t, I 0 t1,
?~aliic Communist Cl,- u_.IC it I. t' I' it I
- it C , tl id ~
lsnl ill II C 1111 efeeit-flit Its Ills it I ;) !r IFl
Cll 1 1t~i. ~`~~~
Much of Pala.SLCil'a 11 tf : ?C il,olt~ to 11 S lilcl'l~dll
Seems to steal from the UliitE'Ct1
States failure to sl:ppc'; I
stain in the 1CG P air with India
and from the stopping of ITlil;-
tary supplies to bosh Countries
at that tulle.
Pakistan expected a re ewal
of those supplies and other
fat ors when dir. Nixon, N; iu,
was Vice Presidcnt~ and :I'
President Eisenhower during
the congenial nine.te;en-fiftie
tool; chide. But these e1pt eta-
tions have not been fulfiiled?
United States economic aid
to Pa':kistan, now al-out $200-
million a. year, is regularly do-
scribed as a stratagem to sccurc
United States domination of
Pakistan or to undeIm m,e her
Security.
f:l'tllf:l_sslor Accused
A letter to tl, editor in a
Karachi , ap,r the ot:lsr day
d piCtoil Americans in Pakistan
1?lstenis to radio broadcasts of
the t.Iuii,aimiad Ali-Joe Frazier
boxing match and gloating over
Albs defeat because he is a
Moslem.
A common charge is that the
United States, which is on rcC-
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From S. It. G11AURI, Dacca, February 5
hands of some parly leaders of his repeated requests, Air leader of a Bengali Marxist
about two years ago.' lihashani had failed to pleb- Communist iia?rly and advo-
/being waged in public arolnd Isl;nni "on the inlonesian rejects ballot-box democracy
,w/ what, is described as a CIA 1/allern" and favours and armed revolu.
dorunlent which "dell Into tho Air 'fbaha said that In spite t.tnn. It is named after the
Alaulana llhashani, aged 87, "lent from Airy(l ast>'anicland Air 13hashanl continues to
its president and a legendary had requested him to publish maintain an a m fit v a 1 e n t
figure in East Pakistan, the it immediately, The doom"eat fnallyp plump do but for is ent ontesti may
almost hopeless task of picking he elaimod, as did Air It?has? erelcrtio ctIonf s, if th o u n the
e c o u n c d l
,up the pieces, hani, contained a plan to mas.
ing west Pakistanis, is in
bias. has splintered into three Mr Toaha said that he had favour of the elections.
warring factions 1-6, rcc '
? i?~? aursl participation but the
i'akistan's only party close to haul had prevented publication party's 85mlan council, anolud-
connunisnl with it Chinese of the document
especi:nlly In lust Pakistan to """ "'' ""c' ti unicn'rs exist- clecuon and prefers armed
sllirhl'i'ss peasants and workers. ell 'e, he said, and had asked revolution to a sustained peace.
hegemony. For months the ""VCClHmem it no was eon- , The party infighting has
vlmced of its authenticity, made Mr l3hashani's noSitinn
document has been the lunch.
"It", VU noldl CICtriloll9 to tho peasantry mainly because of ,
and its "StnngCR" hl 1110 Natinnai Acsmih1v i.e !im-1,.... w:-
uecrnne w;5ur>tie moll after so tar he continues to wield a
churning out pro a 1Inda President Yahva IChan's rkeri. n,nninnl 121--
the docutnen! ? " ""?" "`'s ux?[nmiuiee, Mien Is dom,i- dazzling Intellectual eonteutr
upon twhich Mr nated by East Pakistan, is has tailed to achieve.
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