Bangladesh, India on Collision Course? ACCA - (LENS) - The fumblings towards got anaier conf the Indian adeontnen have begun, The nemomtrold maltary goverment Gi Bangladesh soma to be shaping up fee a contrentauon ‘ih sgn Imighber Inn ‘for "ihe past_few months Bangladeh's mulary leader, Maloe General Ziaur Ral, woo seed power last November, has boen at {etptng io geal wi thecawesot he sunt by dcr diplomacy But Snow being sand in Bangladesh's anita, Dacca iat tse approaches fave. froved’ rutles, and’ the Banglades have decd too for bole by cron Inn pail, ad even preparing te the posabaity dha reacties Las Weekend General Zr Rab ran told widely cerng gathering In Docea of Mu Ban recdo, falters themensto fot Pakistan in 197k hat they “ght Sem have oft again to protect fe independence “of Bangladesh He Seneuneed th the Wax Babi ould et new mittary tein, 30 that they could ranger tne 00 Teno! te Bangladesh amy “The Warrng came three days after SSeneral Za Tasman, lunched 8 Strong attack o nda af the Caen fvaligned summit Darog the fnference Bangladesh delegates ote for support again Ina and CALL 92-3763 Published every afternoon except Sunday’ by The Hendersouvie Newspaper Corp, P.O, Bux 498, Headervouvle” N.C. ‘ar lass_poatage Hendersonville, N.C. 2570, called it “neocolaialist” and “ex- Pansionist. Tn the past month there has been a resurgence of strident antttndian ‘propaganda inthe Bangladeshi press, ‘muh etonal writers talking’ ot a “man made tragedy which could ‘engulf the whole subcontinent.” ‘The dispute with India invelves two News Focus fssues, Fu Bangladesh alleges that india ‘as broken an agreement drawn up ‘when the 00" million Farakka Tarrage was completed 11 miles Ine sade Indian territory. ‘The barrage ‘complex, with a mile feeder canal, 1s desigied to divert water from the Ganges to the Hooghly river in an attempt to clear away the dangerous salting of the waterways around India's port of Clout Accor ing to Bangladeshi officials, the two countries agreed to conduct briet test diversion of water in Ma; The ‘more than #2 fallion, and Uns wll ‘overthrow and murder ofthe sheikh & yeat ago, They are Jed by a Name boyant hero of tho 1971 war against Falustan, Kader Siddique, and have ‘own up bridges and government bulldngs and murdered local officials India’s Border Security Force, and clam to have captured documents and weapons. proving ian ‘connocten ‘No doubt Bangladesh, at least in ble, Is exaggerating both issues. ut they have now become the focus of intense anthindian feelings, tne Septh of which surprises ‘even, ‘Western diplomats, Perhaps part of government's aim sto use this as ‘8 means of uniting Bangladesh, no ‘mall attraction in a country which fas gone through three coups havy's chief of staff, hazards the guess that © India’ wants to estabize” his country In the hope of Imposing. more prolndian ad- ‘ministration in Dacea, Given India's higrhanded policies fp the pat tomar ts aie nigh bors, Sukie and Nepal, ether senor ‘officials claim that (tis just another ‘anfestation of Indian "arrogance. Letters To The Editor ‘Tomerdter: ‘As one drives about the clty and ‘County he is umpreased by the number of tunes Flaherty 18 wooed for has ote. Also, we are Atak) kins by Brown, Gudger, ete. Uf there is no