Newspaper Reports 1971

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March 1971
3/27/1971	Daily Telegraph	Civil war flares in E. Pakistan
3/27/1971	Daily Telegraph	EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s civil war
3/27/1971	Daily Telegraph	Jinnah’s dream of unity dissolves in blood
3/27/1971	The Age (Australia)	Dacca breaks with Pakistan
3/27/1971	The Times of London	Heavy fighting as Sheikh Mujibur Declares E. Pakistan independent.
3/27/1971	The Boston Globe	East Pakistan secedes: civil war breaks out
3/27/1971	The New York Times	Leader of rebels in East Pakistan reported seized
3/28/1971	Sunday Telegraph	Army take over after night of shelling
3/28/1971	Sunday Telegraph	EDITORIAL: The victims
3/28/1971	Sunday Telegraph	Pakistani bombers ‘hit rebel town’
3/28/1971	New York Times	Army expels 35 foreign newsmen from Pakistan
3/28/1971	New York Times	Artillary used
3/28/1971	New York Times	Toll called high
3/29/1971	Daily Telegraph	Army in complete control
3/29/1971	Daily Telegraph	Casualties likely to be heavy
3/29/1971	Daily Telegraph	East wing sealed off
3/29/1971	Daily Telegraph	EDITORIAL: Divide or rule
3/29/1971	Daily Telegraph	No mercy in Pakistan fighting
3/29/1971	New York Times	Sticks and spears against tanks
3/29/1971	The Age (Australia)	EDITORIAL: Pakistan tragedy
3/29/1971	The Age (Australia)	Pakistanis rally to Sheik’s call
3/29/1971	The Age (Australia)	War comes at last to a divided nation
3/29/1971	The Age (Australia)	When tanks took over the talking
3/29/1971	The Sydney Morning Herald	EDITORIAL: Plunge into chaos
3/30/1971	Daily Telegraph	Tanks crush revolt in Pakistan
3/30/1971	Daily Telegraph	Reporter slips net
3/30/1971	New York Times	Heavy killing reported
3/31/1971	The Guardian	Heavy fighting and burning in Chittagong
3/31/1971	New York Times	EDITORIAL: In the name of Pakistan

April 1971
4/1/1971	New York Times	Appaling tragedy in East Pakistan
4/3/1971	New York Times	A resistance fighter tells his story
4/4/1971	The Sunday Times	Nicholas Tomalin witnesses a massacre
4/4/1971	New York Times	Britons tell of killings
4/4/1971	New York Times	EDITORIAL: ‘All part of a game’ – a grim and deadly one
4/4/1971	Sunday Telegraph	Starvation threat to E. Pakistan
4/5/1971	Newsweek	Pakistan plunges into civil war
4/7/1971	New York Times	EDITORIAL: Bloodbath in Bengal
4/9/1971	New York Times	Families flee town
4/13/1971	The Guardian	PICTURE: Refugees flee Kushtia
4/14/1971	The Guardian	EDITORIAL: Rhetoric and reality
4/14/1971	New York Times	Bengalis form a cabinet as the bloodshed goes on
4/16/1971	CBS Evening News	East Pakistani Refugees Fleeing to India
4/17/1971	New York Times	Hours of terror for a trapped Bengali officer
4/18/1971	New York Times	In this case, war is hell for one side only
4/18/1971	New York Times	Keating report stirs Pakistanis
4/19/1971	Newsweek	Pakistan: Reign of Terror
4/25/1971	New York Times	Refugees worry Indian officials
4/26/1971	Newsweek	Pakistan: Vultures and Wild Dogs

May 1971
5/1/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	India-Pakistan: warclouds mass
5/2/1971	New York Times	The political tidal wave that struck East Pakistan
5/6/1971	New York Times	Foreign news reports criticized
5/7/1971	New York Times	Pakistani general disputes reports of casualties
5/7/1971	Washington Post	Aide admits massacre in East Pakistan
5/9/1971	New York Times	Bengalis depict how a priest died
5/10/1971	New York Times	All serious opposition seems ended in East Pakistan
5/12/1971	New York Times	EDITORIAL: The vultures of Bengal
5/12/1971	Washington Evening Star	Vultures too full to fly: East Pakistani Calamity defies belief
5/13/1971	New York Times	Army men in Pakistan see heresy in Western style education there
5/13/1971	The Baltimore Sun	US asked not to aid Pakistan
5/14/1971	The Baltimore Sun	EDITORIAL: Pakistan story
5/16/1971	New York Times	That shadow in the sky is a vulture – a fat one
5/16/1971	The Boston Globe	“Jai Bangla” A Bengali cry of national pride, now muted
5/22/1971	Saturday Review	Genocide in East Pakistan
5/25/1971	New York Times	Pakistani strife said to continue
5/27/1971	The Guardian	LETTER: East Bengal atrocities

June 1971
6/9/1971	New York Times	Disease, hunger and death stalk refugees along India’s border
6/10/1971	Le Monde, France	Bengal corpses in the wake of a crusading army
6/10/1971	Reuters	Move to cut Aid to Pakistan
6/10/1971	Washington Post	East Pakistan : A Wound Unhealed
6/13/1971	The Sunday Times	EDITORIAL: Stop the killing
6/13/1971	The Sunday Times	Genocide (Front Page story)
6/13/1971	The Sunday Times	Genocide (Center Page story)
6/13/1971	New York Times	Pakistani charges massacre by army
6/18/1971	LIFE	They are dying so fast that we can’t keep count
6/20/1971	New York Times	The only way to describe it is hell
6/21/1971	New York Times	East Pakistan is reopened to newsmen
6/23/1971	New York Times	EDITORIAL: Abetting repression
6/25/1971	Hong Kong Standard	EDITORIAL: Another Genghis
6/28/1971	Newsweek (Page 43-44)	The Terrible Blood Bath of Tikka Khan

July 1971
7/1/1971	New York Times	Correspondent of the Times ousted from East Pakistan
7/3/1971	New Yorker	The talk of the town; Notes and Comments
7/4/1971	New York Times	An alien army imposes its will
7/4/1971	New York Times	Hindus are targets of army terror in an East Pakistani town
7/11/1971	The Sunday Times	A regime of thugs and bigots
7/11/1971	The Sunday Times	The Repression of Bengal
7/13/1971	New York Times	World Bank unit says Pakistan aid is pointless now
7/13/1971	New York Times	Excerpts from World Bank group’s report on East Pakistan
7/14/1971	New York Times	EDITORIAL: Pakistan condemned
7/14/1971	New York Times	West Pakistan pursues subjugation of Bengalis
7/14/1971	The Boston Globe	Plea from CARE
7/16/1971	New Statesman, London	West Both Sides of Disaster : On refugees
7/17/1971	New York Times	A Pakistani terms Bengalis ‘chicken hearted’
7/23/1971	Wall Street Journal	A Nation Divided
7/31/1971	The Economist, London	Time is running out in Bengal

August 1971
8/1/1971	New York Times	Why they fled
8/1/1971	St. Louis Post-Dispatch	EDITORIAL: Obligations in Pakistan
8/5/1971	New York Times	14 Pakistani aides quit missions in US
8/5/1971	New York Times	The ravaged people of East Pakistan
8/12/1971	Daily Telegraph	PICTURE: Senator Kennedy visits refugee camp
8/14/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	A people’s war
8/14/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	Pakistan – Blow to Confidence Page 1, Page 2
8/17/1971	Daily Telegraph	Halt US aid for Yahya, says shaken Kennedy
8/17/1971	New York Times	Kennedy in India terms Pakistani drive genocide
8/17/1971	Washington Post	Kennedy charges genocide in Pakistan
8/28/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	Who is my neighbor?
8/28/1971	Los Angeles Times	Pakistan Arms Dispute Exaggerated, U.S. Says
8/28/1971	Los Angeles Times	India Priest Pleads for Aid in Pakistan Crisis

September 1971
9/3/1971	The Times, London	Statement by Dr. Peter Shore, British M.P.
9/4/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	East Pakistan: the avengers
9/4/1971	Los Angeles Times	East Pakistan leaders sworn in
9/11/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	Pakistan, a little hope
9/19/1971	Los Angeles Times	Agha Khan Yields on Constitution
9/23/1971	New York Times	Bengali refugees say soldiers continue to kill, loot and burn
9/25/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	Fighters of Darkness

October 1971
10/6/1971	Los Angeles Times	Pakistan Tells U.N. of Acts of War by India
10/10/1971	The Sunday Times	Pakistan: The propaganda War Page 1, Page 2
10/14/1971	New York Times	Horrors of East Pakistan turning hope into despair
10/17/1971	New York Times	The grim fight for Bangla Desh
10/18/1971	The Guardian	Dhaka Guerillas start offensive
10/24/1971	New York Times	Pakistan offers seized TV films
10/26/1971	The Sunday Times	Stop the slaughter

November 1971
11/5/1971	New York Times	Wave of Sabotage in East Bengal as border tension rises
11/9/1971	New York Times	Bengal Guerillas set up number of assassinations and bombings
11/13/1971	Los Angeles Times	Rogers Fears Indo-Pakistan War Soon
11/13/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	India-Pakistan: UNDECLARED WAR
11/16/1971	Los Angeles Times	India, Pakistan May Go to War Over East Bengal–and Add to the Suffering
11/17/1971	New York Times	East Pakistan town after raid by army
11/20/1971	Far Eastern Economic Review	Faith in Bengal’s Fighters
11/21/1971	New York Times	Razakars: Pakistani group helps both sides
11/27/1971	Los Angeles Times	Jessore May Hold Key to Pakistani Outcome
11/27/1971	Los Angeles Times	U.S. Says It Is Trying to Ease Crisis
11/27/1971	Los Angeles Times	Heavy Pakistan Fighting reported

December 1971
12/4/1971	New York Times	Mrs. Gandhi’s statement
12/6/1971	New York Times	The wringing of hands
12/7/1971	New York Times	Dacca listens and waits
12/9/1971	New York Times	Bengalis dance and shout at liberation of Jessore
12/9/1971	New York Times	Pakistan’s holy war
12/10/1971	New York Times	India reports foe in rout in East as encirclement of Dacca gains
12/10/1971	The Harvard Crimson	Pakistanis Retreat to Dacca
12/10/1971	The Evening Star (Washington)	Jubilant Begalis celebrate freedom
12/12/1971	New York Times	The crucial fact is that Pakistanis are hated
12/15/1971	New York Times	Forces closing in
12/15/1971	Washington Post	Witness called E. Pakistan terror beyond description
12/16/1971	New York Times	Bhutto denounces council and walks out in tears
12/16/1971	New York Times	Text of message from General Manekshaw to General Niazi
12/16/1971	New York Times	Bombing is halted
12/16/1971	The Times of London	Pakistani General, near to tears, signs at racecourse ceremony
12/16/1971	The Times of London	Parliament’s joyful ovation for Mrs. Gandhi
12/17/1971	New York Times	2 men at a table; march to Dacca
12/17/1971	New York Times	In Dacca killings amid the revelry
12/17/1971	New York Times	Statements by Mrs. Gandhi on truce and surrender
12/17/1971	New York Times	The surrender document
12/19/1971	New York Times	125 slain in Dacca area believed elite of Bengal
12/20/1971	New York Times	Not to be forgotten
12/21/1971	New York Times	A village ablaze, a blown bridge
12/22/1971	New York Times	Who knows how many millions have been killed
12/29/1971	New York Times	Guerrillas seek lost relatives
12/29/1971	New York Times	Hindu refugees return, find ruins in East Pakistan
12/30/1971	New York Times	A day of terror for 50,000 Bengalis

January 1972
1/3/1972	New York Times	A journalist is linked to murder of Bengalis
1/6/1972	New York Times	Texts of secret documents on top level US discussions of Indian-Pakistani war
1/9/1972	Daily Telegraph	Sheikh Mujib flies in and sees Heath
1/9/1972	New York Times	Backstage with the crisis managers
1/10/1972	Daily Telegraph	Yahya Khan accused of sex orgies
1/10/1972	Washington Post	The killings at Hariharpara
1/11/1972	New York Times	Sheik Mujib home
1/14/1972	New York Times	Text of memo on Indian-Pakistan war
1/16/1972	New York Times	Hindu refugees back in Dacca find themselves without homes
1/18/1972	New York Times	Bengali wives raped in war are said to face ostracism
1/23/1972	New York Times	‘I’m alive!’ is still big news
1/24/1972	New York Times	Bengalis land a vast cemetery
1/30/1972	Washington Post	Bengalis bodies found

February 1972
2/5/1972	New York Times	US sent arms to Pakistan despite pledge to Congress

March 1972
3/5/1972	New York Times	Killing of babies feared in Bengal
3/18/1972	New York Times	India opens way for Dacca trials
3/22/1972	Washington Post	UN asked to aid Bengali abortions

May 1972
5/12/1972	New York Times	Dacca raising the status of women while aiding rape victims

July 1972
7/23/1972	New York Times	The rapes of Bangladesh