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Show Atul suay, Verconuee <4, 1971 ‘Bengla Desh’ Is a Fact preme Court, a college pres: dent—and he had no timefor polities UNITEDNATIONS— NEA Ten floors over But ail that changed for Manhattan's East 38th Street, in a building with me. On March 25 of this year, That was when the armies of West Pakistan cameinto East Pakistan and began to kill hundreds of thousands of my people. I decided then I must fight for something better. sweaty walls and peeling paint, there is a grubby 10x 15-foot office which as sertively, if not yet legally represents the despair of 75 million people. It's the Bangla Desh Mis- The ‘something better” is. sionto the United States. It was created three of course, Bangla Desh. A new nation, meaning land of the Bengali. Chowdhury's job months ago and for most of the time since has been ig now is to speak to the world ofits existence nored as ancther of this city’s distressingly prolific He does so convincingly Mainly because he has the weight of eviden on his fruiteake headquarters Other people in the building have wondered what ngla Desh was, asked. side. but no: fered,” ple. did To alady passengt Bangla Desh vator. He told her that was a ing the woman's eyes started to glaze. Today, the situation at the Bangla Desh Mission has changed somewhat. The dev- astaling war on the Indian subcontinent has brought some notoriety and some clamoring to the office's door. But even now, as a few Americans are at last interested in that part of the world, most ave still nct. Bangla Desh is the core of the India-Pakistan war. The Bangla Desh Mission is the angry result of an argument which has worried the security of the entire world. Yet away from the palaces of power, Bangla Desh remains just a funny name whichnobody understands. Ircaically, one of the Bangla Deshofficers, whose job is to make the world understand, can sympathize with world apathy. Abu Sayed Chowdhury, a ‘“‘special representative of the Bangla Desh nation,” says that for much ofhislife he, too, was apathetic about his country. He was a lawyer, a justice of the Pakistani Su- he says of his peo In fact, Chowdhury says there never were two co new nation, formerly called East Pakistan, and thatit was try: ing to promote official recognition in the United States and the rest of the world. He said his people were emerging from two decades of oppression and_ privation, that they were fighting for their lives and their ideals But he only had 10 floors to explain, and bythefifth land- ‘What we have suf. “nobody has suffered What we have tolerated, nody lerated. We can't back to that now operative states of Pakistan. He says that when Pakistan By HELEN THOMAS offenders. It helped WASHINGTON (UPI) —If a job. Mrs. King said you think “Dear Abbie” is mouey per capita moneys, and ¢ D as per cent revenue So, says Chowdhury, people's ang “A ) Today you submit, tomorrow you submit—but finally the time comes when you will not submit any longer. In December of 1970, Bengalis stopped submitting Running on a carppaignfor a new Constitution, reformist East Pakistani politicians won 167 of 169 parliamentary seats in the Bengali half of the nation. It was enough to assume control (167 seats to In a letter to Mary, Mrs, letters that pour in at the rate assembly. It was an unmis takable voter cry for more deperding more everything for the Easter peuples; and it was also a demand for wholesale hanges in the Pakistani pub. childish scrawls, saying: love you Mrs. Nixon. Mrs. King said that lic administration. But the West would have MILLIONS ON THE MOVE :, the uprooted population cf East Pakistan helped pressure transformation of Bangla Desh from an ideal into a serious resistance movement and a civil stru ggle into an international conflict British Royal Family Gets Richer After Pay Raise aRare a ee % ‘OFF ~ 10 OR MORE!!! on White House lover’,” Mrs. King said. Lym Oo] GIVE DECORATOR PILLOWS. fans Your Christmas Store 200 W. 200 North Provo the right of Britain's beloved matronly Queen Mother to a $60,000 pay raise. It brings her annual salarytu $132,000. “The Queen Motheris an oldage pensicner and we say ‘Yes, she has always got a pleasant smile on her face,’ "’ Hamilton said. “MyGod! If my wife got that pay she would never stop laughing.” MP's represenung we governing Conservative party began to shout “Thi an obscene speech” as Hamilton pressed on. “We hear of the unhappiness you experienced because ofit. It is as difficult to explain prejudice and discrimination as ignorance. The differences in backgrounds of various groups “asto- Mrs. Nixon also is a “pen pal” of many Vietnam wounded war veterans. Mrs. King, an attractive brunette who still has a trace of a Southern accent, was born in Hartsville, S.C. She was graduated from Coker College and got her firgt glimpse of the White House in 1996 when she attended a press reception given by President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt “T was from a small town Nixon said: “I've read an I was ecstatic,” she account of your deed of and recailed. “Roosevelt noticed the kindness during the Christmas season and I was distressed to clementis corspge I was news. They range from heart- it is to understand violence. All rending requests for help to are rooted in fear and more money none of it. And when the Bengals begin to pressure Moslems out of India) the with demonstrations of outidea was to form two inde- tage, Pakistani president Yapendent but allied states. ha Kahnopted for a military West and East. At the time, settlement. On March 25 hewever, all political muscle 1971, he ordered troops to was in the West; and since crack the resistance. In the words of the Bangla Desh the West preferred central government to state autono“Everyonein sight was shot. Womenwerenailed to trees my, Eastern independence LONDON (UPI)—TheBritish was not granted. Asa result, Men were tied to Jeeps and fromthe beginaing, the Ben- dragged. Sleeping children royal family was muchricher gali East Pakistanis, with were bayoneted. Young men today despite a Labor party their different language, difhad their blood drained off member of parliament who ferent culture, and different to replenisb wounded tried to block their huge pay dreams, grumbled and soldiers. Young girls were raise with an attack against pulled a differen. way. tortured. Wholevillages were them so outspoken that it Atfirst, the grumbling and destroyed byartillery.” Al- shocked the House of Compulling was feeble. Chowd- together, says Sayed Chowd- mons. hury wasn’t the only apath- nury, “Yaha Kahn has At one point he called etic East Pakistani. Butasit killed one million of my peo- Princess Margaret, the queen’s becameclear that the West- ple and forced another 10 sister, an “expensive, kept ern half of the nation was, in million to flee to India for Chowdhury’s words, ‘‘subrefuge. You see now why woman.” jugating the East,” serious Pakistan can never be reQueen Elizabeth will get dissent began, united.” nearly $2.3 million a year for Easterners protested the Technically, of course, salaries and to run the royal accumulation of comforts Pakistanis still united. The household as result of a 106 per and authority in the West. Bangla Desh leaders pro- cent pay raise approved by a Chowdhury says that al- claimed independence last 300-27 vote in the Commons though East Pakistan has 60 April and appealed “to all Tuesday night. She contends per cent of the Pakistan pop- nations of the world, big and she needed the raise because of ulation (estimated in 1969 at small, to cometo our aid.” severe inflation since she was 132 million), the West has the India wasthefirst nation to crowned in 1952. nation’s capital, the Parlia- respond by recognizing the The Commons approved the in. tment, the SupremeCourt and pay raise after William Hamilthe military headquarters. In Bangla Desh is a ton bitterly attacked the Queen addition, he adds, Westernsays Chowdhury. ‘We ers make up 93 percent of are 75 million free people, Mother, Princess Margaret the military forces, 80 per one of the largest nations in and what he sawas an cent of the government em- the world. We have fought excessive number of ladies of ployes and hold virtually all for and won our independ- the bedchamber attending the high federaloffices. Finally, ence. We will never go back queen. The Commons sat in stunned says Chowdhury, West Pakis- to Pakistan. I swear, wewill silence as Hamilton questioned tanis earn 61 per cent more never go back to that.” ie , Interior Design Dept. bike and called her ‘nigger eye and can go to the heart uf a letter. She wants her mail answered promptly. She answers many personally,”” The President's wife spends about four hours a day on the of well over a tiousand a week, was formed (by breakaway 2° and Up mail,” Mrs. King told UPI in an interview. “She has an eagle 146) of the entire Pakistani autone the girl get one of the tuned in on people's troubles, most poignantletters the First you should read Pat Nixon's Ladyhas written went to Mary mail. Perkins of Sweetwater, Fila. Just ask soft-spoken Gwen The 10-year-old girl was beaten King, director of the First up by neighborhood teen-agers Lady's correspondence who last year after she spent her sifts through hundreds of $10 in Christmas moneyto buy letiers a day and sends them to gifts for some Negro kids who Mrs. Nixon for replies. were evicted from their home. “They knocked her off her “She really cares about her per cent ofall deve BANKAMERI By TOM TIEDE THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 25 Need Advice? Write Mrs. Nixon have often promoted insecurity nishingly little” of the mail is and tension critical or “kooky.” Someletter “Perhaps the question should writers do ask her hyshe is not be why prejudice and spending tax money on White hatred continue to exist but House restoraiion, They are how we can eliminate them told that the President’s house, from our society, You have set like their own home, gets lots a shining example by your of “wear and tear.” She also selfless act by sharing with the explains that wealthy donors less fortunate, I hope you will contribute to the refurbishing. always display the same After Mrs. Nixon put pres- courage and conviction ...” sure on the President to name The First Lady signs her a woman to the Supreme Court letters “Pat Nixon” or “Patri—and he didn’t—there were cia Nixon.” letters saying her husband “has One woman wrote that her let her down,” mothe, an immigrant from Mrs. King said Mrs, Nixon Italy, wanted desperately to seems to work magic in become a U.S. citizen before reaching out to help others. She she died, but could not reac or cited a young girl who wrote write. Mrs, Nixon's corresponMrs, Nixon that she was “very dence staff quickly found out poor and uad been caught that the woman had beenin the shoplifting” and wondered whe- country 20 years, long enough ther the First Lady could help to waivethe literacy regulation. her get a job. “She gets hundreds of reShe said they drafted a quests for pictures and requests sympathetic letter but when for a personal note on Mrs. Nixon looked at it she birthdays, anniversaries, bapsaid, “but Gwen, she needs tisms and bar mitzvahs,” Mrs. help.” As a result, they found that there is a Civil Service rehabilitation service for first letter was answered.” wearing and asked where I was from. After a chat he said, ‘Well you know if you want to work at the White House you can,’” ‘I was flabbergasted,” she Sal She did join the government, working for the Library of Congress, the Agriculture De- partment and the Pentagon. She went to the White House in 1953 during the Eisenhower years and has been there ever since, She took time out to marry Labruce King, a government cfficial, and they have joueney, Mrs. King said life was more predictable in the Eisenhower era. She said Eisenhower's secretary, Ann Whitman, “taught me how one can handle an impossible job, Her desk wastotally disorganized, but her mind was totally orgaised.” When President Kennedy took over the White House, Mrs. King stayed on in the Appointments Office. There are a thousand things BankAmericard will buy for Christmas. In a thousandplaces. From BankAmeriboots to BankAmerifruits. With First Security BankAmericard, wherever youfind it, you've alreadygot a charge account. Bal med BANKAMERICARD. ® Service Marks Ownedand Licensed by Bank America Service Corp. i two children, now grown. She was the only woman on the “advance team”that went to Moscow to arrange President Dwight D. 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