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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 23, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday december 23, 1971 East Pakistan a mass by Peter o Loughlin Dacca a the whole country is a mass grave. Who knows How Many millions have been killed the police chief of the new people s Republic of Bangladesh describing the Slaughte in East Pakistan said tuesday that mass Graves could be uncovered in every others killed before the Pakistan government surrender lie without burial on the streets and Village paths where they died he added. Jackals vultures and dogs Are at said the chief in Spector general Abdul Khali que. The nine months of bloodshed began in March when the pakistani government sent troops from the West to crush East Pakistan s Independence move ment. Thousands of bengalis were killed in the crackdown. Resistance by rebel guerrillas also Cost the lives of pakistani soldiers and led to still More killing in retribution for the guerrilla attacks. Bengalis As Sert some of the bloodiest anti rebel retribution came from local Volunteer militiamen called Raz Akars. Those elements were blamed for killing and mutilating scores of Bengali intellectuals whose abused bodies were found last week in pits on the outskirts of Dacca. The dead included Nizamuddin Ahmed who had served As a part time correspondent for the associated press. Anywhere Between and 1.5 million bengalis May have died. The exact number probably never will be known. But now Khalique believes the bloodshed is finally Over and peace can return to the Tor tured Region under a Bangladesh administration. We re doing better than we he said. Tell me another country in history where it has been any there has been no evidence of widespread revenge killing by bengalis since the ceasefire. Officials had still the bengalis would take revenge on the estimated two million non bengalis and the army whom most people blame for the Long wave of bloodshed. Opening communications t the big port of Chittagong s the population can be fed is on of the main Indian priorities. S is the repair of the bomb damaged runway at Dacca air port. Five Days after the Capitula Tion of the pakistani army in s u r e d self government of Bangladesh shops Are opening again and some food is begin rung to trickle into the markets. The few Bengali administrators who have arrived so Fai face staggering difficulties and 75 million peo pie. Nine months of insurrection and 13 Days of All out Wai ruined the Economy. Also col lapsed Are civil administration food distribution transport fue supplies and Law and order. Foreign Money hint continued the Indian army has quietly been patrolling the most Sensi Tive quarters of Dacca to pre vent further bloodletting. They seem to have largely succeeded. There have been two Public executions in which six persons were killed by rebel mukti a Hini not More than a dozen bodies have been seen in the streets. However outside Dacca where the Indian army is not an inhibiting Factor there have been unconfirmed reports of killings on a larger scale. To prevent revenge attacks the Bengali administrators assistance in some in stances of the Indian army have begun to disarm the mukti Tahini irregulars. This will also prevent use of the guns later in struggles for political control. Already there is propaganda evidence of a Power struggle Between maoists and pro Moscow elements Al though no violence has been re ported. The Indian army which has about two regiments in Dacca and others concentrated in the major towns is trying to be As unobtrusive As possible while keeping close watch Over the possible Deal from the . Nearly pakistani soldiers in the Dacca compound. Government will spend time in january working on re vision of Bills to govern Busi Ness Competition and labor management relations. Remains beaten at the moment in Canada there Are Hopes for a decline in unemployment this Winter and the country is recording better eco nomie growth than any other Industrial nation. Or. Trudeau reiterated that delay in issuing the foreign ownership policy is due to editing translation and printing. He said he saw no real Rea son against issuing the report while parliament is recessed next month if it is but if parliament wished he would wait for reassembly in february. The prime minister was com menting of anti americanism in Canada when he remarked that i am convinced that Well be accused of anti americanism next month when the for eign ownership policy is announced. He said anti americanism waxes and wanes in Canada in sporadic and mercurial Fash Ion. The Best policy is to try and remove the causes he said. Or. Trudeau suggested that aggressive . Trade measures and proposals now apparently nearing final settlement were behind recent indications of anti americanism. His Washington talks dec. 6 with president Nixon helped to wards a settlement he said As did Canada s refraining from retaliation against . Trade moves. Canada s current negotiations with the . On so called Trade irritants move Forward and backward he said. He declined to predict when they would be completed but observed that if trading partners of the . Fail to make Progress in Trade relations the . Might balk on seeking congressional approval for last weekend s agreement on currency realignment or. Trudeau also resisted suggestions that Canada would be making concessions saying it would seek concessions from the . Canada wants the Best this delectable Bird the one on the left set a new record in England and is this year s Winner of the biggest Turkey contest. The Turkey weighed in at 65 pounds four ounces in the annual contest sponsored by the British Turkey federation. Hold ing the Christmas heavyweight is Linda Stone a 21-year-old Secretary with the federation. Nobility loses privileges co timed or. Bhutto took Over As pres Dent from Gen. Yahya Khan who stepped Down in disgrace after India won a Swift military Victory in East Pakistan last Veek. Reliable sources reported wednesday that Gen. Yahya s life had left the country last weekend for Tehran. This re sort started speculation that Jen. Yahya is Likely to leave h e country soon although Here is no confirmation of this available Here. Or. Bhutto who has de cried his political philosophy of islamic socialism in leftist Erms continued wednesday to put his own imprint on the de normalized government he now commands. He dismissed the military governors of West Pakistan s four provinces. He immediately filled three of the posts with ranking officials rom his Pakistan people s party which won a majority of National Assembly eats in West Pakistan in an Lection last december. An announcement that or. Hutto would hold three key ministerial portfolios without offending them or mis using their Friendship. Jacc foreign affairs and Interi .1 in addition to Belaf pres Dent tended to add weight to arlier speculation that he will concentrate executive Power in is own hands at least in the initial stages of his Rule. He will also be his own min iter for inter provincial co or nation. The broadcast Over govern ment Media concerning the impounding of passports of the 22 families indicated that or. Bhutto Felt the families had not responded to his warning about keeping and sending capital abroad. The time for bringing capital Back from abroad is running the announce ment said. Twenty two families Are something of a social and Politi Cal Symbol Here much As the Rockefeller actors and others were during the . Depres Sion. They would presumably be the prime targets of the eco nomic and land reforms the .-educated, 43-year-old or. Bhutto has repeatedly promised to carry out if he gained Power. In Book the recently published Pakistan crisis David Johnny comes marching Home announcing the return of another Canadian who went to the states and made it big. And at for a six year old Canadian whisky you bet he s Welcome Back. Loshak lists some of these fam Ilies and their interests the Adamjee with jute and textile interest the Sligold and Vali Kas textiles and chemicals the maroons newspapers and Auto assemblies and the habits Bankers. In a speech monday night or. Bhutto said that the country desperately needed to conserve its capital in the critical aftermath of the two week War with India. But it is not Clear if he is acting to Stern a flight of capital already under Way or to head off one that might have been triggered by his coming to office. The civilian governors he named for the Punjab and the Northwest Frontier provinces i Are. Respectively Mustafa Khar and Hayat Mohammad Khan both ranking Pakistan people s party officials. The sind governor is Mumtaz Ali Bhutto the president s Cousin and a party official. The governor for Baluchistan will be named later. Or. Bhutto also named Yunus Saeed editor of a party weekly newspaper As chairman of the National press Trust which oversees the country s news papers. Bengalis Welcome leaders continued on the whole the expected j Bloodbath Here has failed to j material be with the exception of several highly publicized incidents following the surrender. J to cries of Joi Bangka Vic tory to acting pres ident Syed Nazrul islam and i prime minister Tajuddin Ahmed arrived in an India air Force Caribou transport there were Many embraces exchanged Here by friends who had not seer each other since the beginning of the Pakistan terror last March 25. Or. Islam Aad or. To Jocko were accompanied by three Antn testers of the whisk a Al foreign. Min ister molests a Al. Ister Konsor As Ard a tarsier i Peru p 15? uha a year to or so House continued de farm products marketing Bil by tonight then Rise until february. Agriculture minister h. A has acceded to a conservative proposal to except cattle from the Bill which would a t h o r i z e establishment of in Ter provincial marketing boards for various farm goods. In the 14 months the Bill has been before the commons Thi has been a major conservative Point of debate. But the new democrats were insisting wednesday that cattle stay in the Bill. That made a thursday adjournment unlikely with re sumption of sittings monday probability after taking a holi Day Friday. The government says the commons will sit until the tax cuts and the marketing Bill Are passed. In the midst of the argument opposition Leader Bobert Stan Field wednesday attacked the government for proposing a recess until feb. 16. Either that meant the govern ment has nothing to offer in the Way of policy he said in a statement or that it plans to introduce policies without bring ing them before parliament. Or. Stanfield made special note of the possibility that the government might announce a Delicy on foreign ownership during the recess. In that Case parliament must he said. He also complained that the recess would bar the opposition rom pressing the government on policies to offset threatened Ligh Winter unemployment. In debate on the tax cuts de Broadbent nip Oshawa Whitby said the Bill exposes he soul of the Liberal party Vla Jor benefits would go to the corporations and their wealthy investors not employees. He said the biggest cuts hould have gone to the people n the income people who have spend their Money. That would have been a better Stim ulant for the Economy. Robert Mccleave Halifax East Hants agreed. But Pat Mahoney parliament Ary Secretary to or. Benson Aid the Gross National product lad expanded at a six per cent ate in the last four quarters Holiday in doubt and the cuts would continue to stimulate growth. The corporate cuts would save companies million in the current year. Individual would save million. The Bill also contains incentives for on the Job training aimed at reducing unemployment. John Lundrigan pc Gander Twillingate urged the govern ment to co ordinate its 20 Sepa rate human resources programs and co operate with the prov inces in improving education and training programs. Lome Nystrom ton Melville called the Bill an other Liberal handout to the wealthy and the mining and Oil Little Benefit to the poor or effect on unemployment. In debate on the Tariff Bill Max s a 11 s m a n nip Waterloo attacked continued Protection Given the plastics Industry. Behind Tariff Walls this Industry had spawned too Many Small plants that were inefficient and incurred High unit costs. The result had been High prices to Canadian Consumers. The historic Western rumblings about tariffs benefiting Eastern firms were becoming roars. The Large foreign ownership ged the Economy he said. Three sign Boundary pact Kuala Bumpur a Thailand Indonesia and malay a signed an agreement tues Day de limiting the boundaries of their Continental shelves in the Northern part of the Straits of Malacca. The three countries now can go ahead with explore Ion of natural resources within heir respective parts of the Continental shelf. Several companies have been Given rights the area for Oil exploration. A Queen ant s single mating Javes her productive for As Ong As 15 years. She does Noth in but Lay eggs. Castro says Sailor is spy for Cia Havana Reuter cuban Premier Fidel Castro said wednesday night that Jose Villa Diaz a . Citizen and Captain of a ship seized by the Cubar Navy this month had admitted being an agent of the United states Central intelligence Agency. In a two hour speech covering Many topics Castro said Villa of the Miami based freighter Johnny express would stand trial before a military court for the Many criminal actions he has committed As a Cia however Castro said that Only one other Crew member a spaniard was incriminated and he suggested that the gov e r n m e n t of Panama under whose Flag the ship sailed should Send a plane to pick up the remaining Crew members As soon As the inquiry was Over Castro said that Villa was in Contact in Tampa fla., in 1964 with a or. John who gave him instructions to enrol on a Cia ship. In 1966, Villa moved to the ship explorer where he participated in three missions for the said. The Premier said that a brother of the cuban born Villa remained in Cuba. Castro said the brother a militia Man and a had seen Villa and the Captain had admitted Villa was wounded dec. 15 when his ship was strafed rammed and captured in the Bahamas. The sister ship of the Johnny express the Lyla express was captured off the coast of Cuba dec. 15. A Miami pickup of a Havana radio broadcast quoted Castro As saying he would release 28 Crew members of the two ships which Are owned by cuban exiles. Concerning president Nixon Castro added Don t know if Nixon was 11-informed about the character of the Cia connections of that attain or if he took a decision hastily or if he thought he would intimidate Cuba. But in any Case he made a mistake. M Castro attacked the . Pres Dent for his policy of intimidation and alleged support of uban exile attacks against the Caribbean Island and vowed there will be no concessions made to the government of the United last Friday Nixon called for the release of Diaz. Castro rejected a Nixon pro test against cuban attacks on International shipping and a de Mand for the return of the Lyla express. Castro called on Nixon to halt pirate then there will be no prob lems in the Castro said. The cuban revolution does not threaten any right of free navigation. It offers guarantees to any ship from any country which sails these seas peaceful finally Castro praised the political courage of senator Edward Kennedy for questioning the usefulness to the United states of Guantanamo. Mars a dry planet Moscow Reuter exploration of Mars by the latest two soviet space probes has con firmed that the red planet is dry Tass news Agency said wednesday night. Describing the work of the Mars two and three automatic Craft now spinning around Mars on different orbits it said it is now Clear that Mars is a very dry planet. If All the water in the Martian atmosphere were to be prec pita i a new Penn if turn nor Pirn Itu Oil Ito a Duce a layer slightly thicker than a human false Teeth that loosen need not Embarrass Don t keep worrying whether your false Teeth will come Loose at the wrong time t or More Security and Comfort Sprinkle on fas Teeth denture adhesive powder. Non acid fas Teeth gives false Teeth a loner firmer steadier hold. Makes a atm easier. No Gummy pasty taste. Dentures that fit Are essential to health. See your insist regularly. Setfa Teeth. Tonight pah beat the clock c join Host Jack Narz and the beat the clock special guest and contestants As they race the clock to perform entertaining stunts for Cash prizes. . Or. Simon Locke c two Points of a Pitchfork part ii or. Simon Locke and or. Sellers in the second half of this two part episode want to avoid a quarantine of Dixon Mills because the quarantine would have an Adverse effect on the economic life of the Community. Captain Dan. In a race against time Hunts Down the human Carrier of the typhoid germ. . The Oral Roberts Christmas show c preempts Longstreet on this a City of the Kinga musical drama is the Christmas offering of the Oral Roberts television series. Special guests Ara Johnny Mathis and Deila Reese innkeeper and his Whf i Peoa guest Burl Ives in a dramatic Reading As the Prophet foretelling the coming event. Regulars Richard and Patti Roberts portray Joseph and Mary. . . . The Dean Martin show c tonight Dean welcomes Dan Rowan Jonathan Winters and Jackie de Shannon to his show. Here come the seventies c cities a a of our future cities Csiky concepts or design Ari with poverty. Or the bold ones c is he e dec Jay to Channel seven television lid. Winnipeg ;