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Show 'isri V"v-S- y. i4i . s j'.jRjvt'9Jt1'r.4- 2 "8V-.Aierr- J .4' ' vi," ' 1 . A ", Tbs Lake Tribune, Sunday, January SkaR ... If v --- f . t 12. 1975 '?(nnc , ?;, "p fill aged v of Bangladesh: Prime Minister Hopes to Relieve Nation's Pam ; rgt . joined the world of the dead t'miliuucd From Page One resources, but th.it it lakes turn- to exploit them Our soil is fert.le. our delta one of the largest in the world. we can make this a country rich in gram Will power can imr.e mount jins Today we suffer, and we receive help from friendly ctLirrie.s, Tomorrow, wo ourselves will be able io help the neediest. is the best expression of faith r There are no more corpses in the streets." he says Put I cry for those w'hieh were there." He dutches his heart wi'h his hands My conscience suiters, my mind suffers I worked fo; them, I think of them, No doubt 1 have responsibilities. In two months, we set up 5.300 field kitchens throughout the country and we gave out more than t million free meals failed for lack of resources The sheik maintains that the worst is over. He denies a statement by the minister of food that the grain rhortage could reach one million tons and ihat the number of dead could become catastrophic No Possibility No such possibility exists," he say s faith itself " ft is Begins To Sing .Mtig in I love you: love ym, r sky, and your winds Tune ivy heart like a flute. In the spring, 0 beloved mother. The fragrance of your mango I , ; , ! Tin that 0 beloved mother, words ; from your lips Are music to my ears. 0, w hat like a shadow, My , j eyes fill with C uiigi vso Says mention Near the station, among the confusion of freight cars being loaded with wheat, a woman, barely alive, lies a few yards from the tracks. Swarms of flies buzz around her, many crawl all over her face as if she were a heap of garbage. With one arm outstretched, its begging hand cupped, the scene is a biography of her final attempts to survive. It is impossible to look at her; it is impossible not to look at her. Weighted cries expression is These are facts, your excellency. "As in all developing countries, there corruption. But we also have honest - you. There is no respite from this mournful fantasy. Wherever one goes, there are scenes of suffering and desperation Death is life in Dacca. They keep coming: the orphans, the lobless, the beggars, the blind the victims of typhoid, dysentarv, tuberculosis, smallpox, cholera. They take the city ?x their own There are so rr.anv of them that one can do nothing but let them come, accept their presence, a wound in the flesh, an ulcer in the k Wherever one goes in Dacca, one secs bodies stretched out on the streets an array of vacant faces and lifeless lives Lies Near Tracks a with maddening screams to call attention to the skeletons laey carry, afraid that the sight alone might not be enough. Airport officials intervene- Donl show any sign am Dont give of sympathy, they them any money. Beggars will accost shriek and wail The line along or.e siu of East Road and compact. From a distance, it looks like a gray-blaccloud. Closer, it emerges as a beehive, a giant ptball that erects out of an insuit and swells with saliva and rage. Dishs waved high above the crowd like flags Several guards push back the hungry attackers Usually a shout, a fierce look a swinging soup ladle will paralyze them their mush might be buried beneath a shoe sole The human wave is contained. but th crowd is tense, anxious Finally, a man walks away with his gruel and the life in his fingers quickens. A woman is pushed out of the line. She cowers with the tiny bundle which she so desperately tried to pretend was alive, to entitle her to a little more. But her attempt to hide it gave her away. She had looked as if she were protecting it from the cold on this day full of w arm sunshine. nothing. ' half-craze- denst is -- None of this is true!" the sheik It is all nonsense! tears " ;n his face has changed, no longer like that in the official portrait. The prime minister has The "The ministers await your excellency." The sheik s black eyes implore the I am the victim." isitor. as if to say the Outside sheiks palace lies Dacca. It is a sick world, peopled by distorted shadows. Mothers' skeletal arms cradle corpses: bodies like petrified shadows remain motionless lor hours on end; the perpetual sound of crying drones from endless dusters of .hacks crying which summons no oim, hke toe sleepwalking in search of - What dlyut the corruption? Food sent lor the starving is being sold on the black market. Rice, salt and jute is smuggled into India. Food distribution Wheat spoils at is totally inefficient port for lack of adequate handling. chantl If sadness covers your face ; a The voice of an ante is heard. already are dead. Fureigner.--, m Dti--slnihtly higher number They lie " I ; in opiKi.-.itiO- - Fills me with joy. 6 1,iti fh)0 "They lie trees . now." 1 Suddenly, the sheik begins to strong but melodious voice: "Af.v coTicn Bangladesh, a How man,, victims do you estimate will die if this grain shortage persists "I cannot say 1 cannot estimate it iotus jjools. tthuh little by little have boiome a mudlule. A man is tel. me another how he lost both arms in the war against Pakistan His torso is no bigger than a shoebox They have also invaded the cemeteries. They sit or squat next to tombstones, liuug among the dead, the graves. Priests sleeping bet w holding the Koran, a mournful intonation on their lips, mingle in the crowds, as do goats and dogs and endless funeral processions. The priests lead th relatives to bathhouse- - where corpses are washed. Then, in ht.le groups of four and five they kneel end face the ea A is a lid pray. The Mecca depressing, but death, which lurks so ominously, here .seems quite benign Afterwards, the relatives sing praises to .Vllah. They praise his kindness, his beauty, his generosity, his patience. The corpses are then carried to a huge space aoep within the cemetery, where the rav aged earth looks like the ocean swell of a petrified sea. Lite goes on ouiside, only slightly inconvenienced by the heady stench ot the atmosphere. The decomposing garbage attracts thousands of crows which blacken both earth and sky. One sees them everywhere: in continual flight, on shabby roofs, on the taves ol buildings, on telephone poles and in troetops, on cars and motorcycles, on bicycle handlebars. Their shrill caws, like the drilling ot a boie but filled with anguish, is also part of the city. They, too. are Dacca Not far from her, ui the airport mothers umge, anxious, cry out to passing travelers showing them the remains of their babies. They eyelids sigral imminent exunclitn She is beyond a tony. There tc ambulances, first d stations, but no one calls them. All up and flown the station platform, human bongs are living life without knowing it, It is difficult to ditermme whether they pulsate, these shapes that attract cjou is of insects. It is difficult to tell how many days remain to these glassy eyed beings with expressionless mouths, wasted bodies arid minds that dwell in darkness. The city is overwhelming. What is death without life? men entrails Graced By Lake city park, in the midst of winch stands the Supreme Court sumptions white building of British and Moorish descent, belongs to the invaders. Bounded by gardens and graced by a beautiful lake with floating lotus blossoms, the park has been converted to a refugee camp. Beneath shady trees the grass is tom up, exposing the reddish earth, where ovens spit out a pitiful flame fed by dry leaves. The women wash their rags in tbe A b No York T!irs Service 1, If Hassle Smoothed Puerto Rico a Key to Energy Crisis? Could By William II. pipelines would have to be laid. And continental Americans want no more "dirty refineries, if it can be avoided. Neither do Puerto Ricans. The idea really aroises environmentalists here. To avoid ugly storage tanks, which are vulnerable to rupture and fire, the oil m. ght be stored in mined limestone caves near Cabo Rojo. Tut in an earthquake, they aie afraid the whole mess would spill out and ruin Puerto Rico's southwest shoreline, with its extraordinary concentration of rare and beautiful marine life. Government officials insist there is .no Frye GERMAN. Puerto hlco The Puerto Rican government hopes to begin SAN construction tlus year of a deep-wate- r port for supertankers, capable of handling at least 1 million barrels of oil a day by 1979. Together with a 2 50, huge refinery, also envisaged, Puerto Rico could funnel and expedite at least 20 25 percent of all anticipated American oil imports from the Persian Gulf for the next 10 years, making a big dent in the energy crisis. The fl w of oil might ev en be guaranteed. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela have been invited to invest in the refinery, tax free. (All revenue from investment in Puerto Rico is initially free of tax.) In return, the oil producers would contractually undertake to provide a minimum Bow of oil at competitive prices to keep the refinery something they operating would have an incentive to do, in any case, because it would be 50 percent their refinery. The Saudis have shown interest and may come up with the money soon. Future Pattern The project would thus be a barrel-a-da- y for such danger, since the caverns could be made earthquake proof. I'm saving up strength for that fight, Dr. Maximo J. fl f a leading spokesman for the environmentalists. said here in an C'crame-Viva- interview. Ctrame-Vivas- , Professor of Marine Ecology at the University of Puerto Rico iMayaguez campus), is a persuasive, articulate but highly controversial figure. The environmentalists are sometimes to being joined their embarassment by independence advocates, who want no strengthening of economic ties to the continental United States, and by Marxian socialists who, in recent years, have begun for the first time to gain a hearing for their brand of virulent gringophobia. These groups are not yet a significant political force, and with luck they never will be. But they are skillfully riding the coattails of the environmentalists, who are. Much depends on the per- sonality of Cerame-Vwa- s who says he is not an indepen-dentist- a and that he favors close and friendly ties to f j pnA ir"1 the United States. But he feels strongly that the superport would bo a major concession to continental Americans, and tha: it should come about, if at all, after a negotiation between equals" in which I uerto Rico got a lot more out of the deal than jobs and an assured petroleum supply. This is close to the cere of the matter. 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