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Show Tuesday, December 21, 1971 First of Three Parts wore New Nation—Bangla Desh—Given Birth By ROBERT KAYLOR NEW DELHI (UPI)—Con- ceived in an inferno of bitterness and bloodshed, a new nation has been bern to the world—Bangla Desh. It emerged from the dark recesses of suppressed hostility and resentment and onte the fiery path trod by most new nations seeking equality among a familyof old and new peoples procedures are much more By MARGARET HYMAN SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI)— difficult if a home is occupied Government expropriation of thanif it is empty.) homeowners’land is a common But houses went up quickly, hazard in many countries but in with those who were not Puerto Rico it is increasingly carperters getting help from the other way around—with their more adept neighbors, and homeseekers expropriating pub- Villa Etension San Jose became a reality, tic land for their houses. violence, but only by carrying forwardhis drive for autonomy The sheikh called a partial strike in the east and !aunched a civil disobedience movement. By March 15 the movement had escalated into a virtual takeover of East Pakistan by the Awami League. At 10:30 the same night, the Pakistan army moved into Dacca with a terrible swiftness. While the government scram- bles for solutions, here is how it works Carlos Laboy, 32, a hauler by trade when he can find work, lived until six months ago in a ‘one. hovel in the “El Cerro” slum of the mountain city of Gurabo with his wife, Carmen Luisa, and their three Within the next two days, blood —war. The roots of Bangla Desh (Bengal Nation) are embedded in the soft, sodden soil of what was the eastern wing of Pakistan, a nation conceived by a British midwife which sought to end Hindu-Moslemenmity in India before the dying empire departed the Asian subcontinent in 1947. Pakistan was established as a nation of two “wings” separated by nearly 1,000 miles of India. If the geography of the nation was an unnaturalone, so wasits sociological makeup. In the west were Punjabis and Pathans, tall and austere desert dwellers. In the east were the short and swarthy Bengalis, unruly inhabitants of a tropical area. who had a history of political ferment and violence in British India. Although the east had a population edge, West Pakistan quickly asserted authority; it filled the government and managerial jobs and dominating business in the east. ran in the streets and alleys and flames licked hundreds of feet into the sky. After the army asserted its garrisons to wrest the country- side from the grip of the Awami League and the people. was often sick fromplaying the the army to push its way to the borders with India, which surround East Pakistan on three sides, burning villages and killing unknown thousands on the way in what was later to be called genocide. As the army forged through the countryside, the first trickles of refugees into India began reaching 9.77 million, according to the Indian government, UNITED F BS INTERNATIONAL INC, ALL RIGHTS ANEW NATION — Bangla Desh —is born to the world, It emerged from the dark recesses of pee, way and resentment, troops from part of the Sinai war. By wg" J. BROWN UPI Travel Editor As the army crackdown continued it became knownthat Rahman had been arrested and had been taken to West Pakistan, On April 17, me nbers NEW YORK (UPI) —Would you believe $99,340 for a threemonth cruise, $8,500 for a twoweek hunting trip, $185 per day of the Awami League leader- for sightseeing? Soviet Union has not kept them informed regularly about its moves in the conflict between India and Pakistan in which the Russians were the chief supporters of India. Only a few weeks ago the Soviet Communist party leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, and French President Georges Pompidou signed a declaration during Brezhnev’'s visit to Paris that the two Newsmiap shows how the nation Bangla Desh was conceived in aninfernoof bitterness and weoaeed. fees, transportation by chauf- feur-driven limousines or first dl lass air travel within Spain and top accommodations at the f inest hotels in ths country Also covered are meals, drinks, sightseeing and various other with Air France and Pan American World Airways, They arerestricted to eight members each because that is all that will fit comfortably into the private Falcon jet which will fly them ‘o their destination. Well, these are just three of e xpenses. the tour packagesbeing offered Not included is the cost of to travelers with a taste for transportation to and from high living and the wallet to Madrid, wherethe safaris begin and end. But a spokesman said pay for it. The $99,340 is what the that after the hunter had French Lines asked for the returned home, he would “Grand Luxe” Ile-de-France receive a color film and photo suite aboard the SS France album of his trip free of which leaves New York on Jan. dl harge. Billed as ‘the most luxurious 10 forits first round-the-worid cruise. The suite can actually hunting trip in Spain,” particiaccommodate five passengers pants will go after partridge, stag, wild boar, wolf, lynx and which would average out to about $18,850 each, not includ- otther game in Castile and ing tips and other personal Adanlusia. in addition, the expenses at sea or at the 21 sponsors said there would be ports of call on the itinerary. extras like sightseeing tours, And transportation to and bullfights, native dancing and from New Yorkis extra too. otither entertainment. There are more “moderateA total of four hunts were ly” priced accommodations scheduled through next Februaaboard the 66,000-ton luxury , with the number of guests liner, including cabins ranging ry, on each limited to 30 hunters up to $15,000 double and suites prices from $48,330 and up for two. But most were booked months ago when the voyage wasfirst announced. Spain recently made its bid for a share of the luxury tourism market -—a new program of two-week hunting trips at $8,500 per hunter. Each hunter may bring along a nonhunting “companion”for another $3,000, or a total of $11,500 for the two weeks. The packages were put \oeeter by a company named Procinsa, in collaboration with Iberia Airlines and with the blessing of the Spanish Ministry of Information and Tourism. countries would consult closely What You Get on world affairs. A company spokesmantold a news conference in Madrid that the rate includes all hunting greementon Berlin —————E In the West German capitalof Bonn, it appears unlikely that the four-power agreementon the For Parents andYoung People future of Berlin will go into ef- The objective of the ratings is to infect until around next May. form its about the suitability of The recent completion of movi jent for viewing by their agreements between East and children, West Germany on traffic 6 ALLAGES ADMITTED arrangements and the rights of West Berliners to go to the East meantthat the four-power ALL AGES AOMITTED agreement needed only the signatures of the Big Four ambassadors on the final protocol. However, the Russians are demanding that the West GermanParliamentfirst ratify its 1970 treaties with the Soviet Laboy built the house himself, selling his truck to raise $1,000 for building materials. The house has no water or electricity, although a television set waiting for an outlet to be plugged into occupies one corner of the living room. And while the house is as yet unpainted and there is no interior finish, the windows and holes representing future windows are hung with curtains, and pictures adorn the rough pianking. The three children, apparently restored tofull health, attend a nearbypublic school. The tours, ranging in length from 11 to days, are The Laboy homeis one of 26 scheduled to begin in late April and run through the end of houses in a new Gurabo October. Four differentitinera- community called Villa Extenries heve been mapped out with sion San Jose, stopovers, depending on the The community was founded tour, at such destinations as St. one rainy night six months ago Tropez, Tangier, Venice, Sardi- when Laboy and the heads of nia, Granada, Dubrovnik, Crete, other El Cerro families sneaked Izmir, Dublin and Aberdeen onto the vacant land, held by among others. the municipal governmentfor a Included in the price are all hospitalsite, after decoying the accommodations, meals, wines, police into believing the land Falcon jet transportation within invasion would take place in Europe, private limousine, pri- another part of town, vate yachts and the services of By the timethe police got to local guides and personalhosts. the site, the invaded land was Accommodations are in private surrounded by a cordon of castles and villas and in determined men, and the police Se hotels and country decided not to makeanissue of the move. Not included is the cost of For days—Laboy said it getting to Paris or Rome and rained the first nine days—the back home, The tours begin and Laboys and their neighbors and 30 ‘‘companions.”” end in Paris with the exception lived in pup tents, leantos or The $185-per-day-per-person of one which starts in Rome any other structure they could sightseeing tours are being and another which terminates erect and call home. (Under offered by the English firm there. Puerto Rican law, eviction Renaissance, in cooperation anyone a right to build homes on that iand. So far, it appears that if squatters can get their homes up fast enough and move into them before law enforcement officers can act, the governmenttends to accept the fait accompli, The next big fight, as Laboy sees it, ratification process completed bylate April or early May. 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The Commonwealth governGovernment is by far the ment reaction has combined largest landowner in punishment with 2 speed-up in Rico, with its Lands Authority plans to provide housing for the holding title to 91,500 of the poor. A few persons have been island's 2.2 million acres, or arrested and fewer still have some 4 per cent of ‘he land. been convicted. The usual fine Other government agencies and municipal governments hold has proved to be $25, The government has found lesser amounts of property. itself handicapped by a law that Considering that the 2.7 requires a special court order million Puerto Ricans live at a before it can destroy occupied density 80 times that of the houses. In one case, police continental United States, and burned down a budding squat- that between 1.1 million and 1.5 ter community before most of million of the island’s acres are the residents had moved in, but considered by planners to be the action won the government too steeply inclined to be the pressure for few friends. The government is considering legislation to housing is acute. Considering further that change this requirement. Defenders of the land- 69,000 Puerto Rican families, grabbing tactic have accused representing about 345,000 perthe governmentof treating the sons, have an annual income of poor and the rich differently. less than $2,000, and that, to They point to a community of many Puerto Ricans, owning illegally constructed summer a home of one’s own is the most homes on the spectacular desired escape from the “peophosphorescent bay at La nage" of the old sugar eo on the island’s south plantation days, the pressure coast. The homes have been for housing lots becomes there for years, on public land desperate. Much of the government's that was simply taken over by land was acquired in 1941 when the home builders. While court action against the a law was passed that no rich La Parquera squatters has individual could own more than begun, Gov. Luis A. Ferre has 500 acres, told newsrnen his government faces a long, complex court A person standing 75 feet process in removing them. above sea level can see about MOVIE RATINGS Israeli thinking is that the Suez Canal zone should be a demilitarized area on both sides of the water.TheIsraelis believe the soviet union could persuade Union and Poland, recognizing the Egyptians to acceptthis. the postwar boundaries of Europe, before they sign the French Dismay With Soviets protecol. Chancellor Willy French government officials Brandt hopes to get the are not trying to conceal their dismay over the fact that the RE SERVED ‘Hig h-Living Tours fortheRich Reopening the Suez Canal Is Under Consideration peninsula which it occupied during the 1967 war. This not because of American pressure but because it believes that the present dangerous deadlock could push Egyptian President AnwarSadat over the brink of polluted mud and water. Today Laboy and his family live in a bright new threebedroom wooden house on a big jot under splendid shade trees. Six Week Battle It took about six weeks for own government, Mrs. Dora M. Pasare!l, Administrator of Parks and Public Recreation, has been accused of owning an illegally constructed summer home un U.S. Navy property on the island of Culebra. Mrs. the Navy says it never gave Such land seizures are not new in Puerto Rico, nor are they confined to the poor. But halelast six months they have in become almost epidemic, The Puerto Rican { Party, which has offered advice and assistance to seven new communities gf squatters, views the seizures as a step children, aged 9, 7 and 5 Laboyand his family paid $35 toward self-reliance in an island a month rent for their home that normally looks to its and the US. surrounded by open sewers. government The youngest child, Laboy says, government for almost all its control in Dacca, the troops planned to fan out from various ship who had escaped to Discontent Grew Deprivation added to discon- Calcutta, India, proclaimed the government-in-exile of Bangla tent. After sporadic violence in the Desh. India provided a sympathetic east, the situation boiled when President Agha Mohammad refuge for the rebels and Yahya Khan, a former general, Parliament quickly pledged held a general election in “full support” for their cause. December, 1970, for a national Border Clashes Increased assembly that was to draft a Pakistan resisted all suggesconstitution for a return to civil tions for a settlement. Clashes ee following 13 years between Indian troops and of military rule. Pakistani forces pursuing the The normally iragmented rebels back across the border Bengalis voted overwhelmingly began to emerge. for the Awami Leagueparty of The tense situation between Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a India and Pakistan began to charismatic51-year-old politi- worsen. Prime Minister Indira cian, in election results that Gandhi, boosted by a friendship evoked surprise. 's treaty signed with the Soviet platform was autonomy for Unionin August,left in October East Pakistan, and he gotall of to explain her position to East Pakistan's assembly seats Western leaders. except two. Shortly before her departure, Consequently, Yahya Khan Pakistan moved nine divisions announced March 2 that the to India’s western border and opening of the assembly was India followed suit. During Mrs. postponed indefinitely. His Gandhi’s absence, Indian troops words signaled some of the made their first attack in force frothing passions of the Benga- into East Pakistan, following lis to boil over. They went on continued Pakistani shelling of the rampagein several areasof a town in an area where the East Pakistan, killing non- rebels hadbases. Bengali Moslem shoovkeepers Mrs. Gandhi apparently had and businessmen. decided that she had waited Rahman wasable to halt the long enough. Diplomatic sources are predicting that Israel will make . move in the we revive the American efforts : get an interim agreement between Israel and Egypt for the reopening of the Suez Canal. 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