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Bureaucrats and professionals
Sir, I fully endorse the views expressed in the letter by Mr. Noazesh All of Banani, Dhaka published in you esteemed Dally on 21-3-91 under the heading "Bureaucrats and professionals".
The bureaucrats are not only having a good time they are behaving as if they are the masters and others who are professlonal-ex-
perts are subordinates.
We have been told time and again that the officers of the Govt. Departments. Semi-Govt, organisations or autonomous bodies cannot form any such "Association'' as to act as their bargaining agent But what are the activities being performed by the BCS (Admin) Association. BCS (Information) Association, BCS (Accounts) Association, etc.? Have they not been found on several occasions overdoing things or even acting more than bargaining agents?
It is time the Govt, should follow one policy for all on any single issue.
Reazuddin Ahmed
Bailey Road
Dhaka.
The space and humanity
Sir, "Humanity will not stay on Earth forever, but will instead, in search of light and space, at first timidly penetrate beyond the atmosphere and then conquer the whole of space arbund the sun." So wrote the Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. the founder of modern space science, in the beginning of
the 20th century. It should be noted that he said humanity" rather than some particular nationality, such as the Russians. Americans. Germans or Japanese. In these words he both expressed his confidence in the future and made a prediction for posterity. It is only by pooling our efforts that we can break the chains of gravity and pave the way to distant worlds. Isn't this a dream worthy of man. worthy of humanity?
The first steps towards this dream was made on April 12.1961. when Yuri Gagarin of the USSR made the first manned space flight as a trailblazer cosmonaut. and then in July 1975, when the Soviet
Soyuz-19 and the US Apollo spaceships rendezvoused and docked, thus forming a single orbital complex. Soviet cosmonauts and US astronauts Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov, Thomas Stafford. Vance Brand and Donald Slayton moved from ship to ship to shake hands, symbolizing the co-operatlon of people of different countries in space and on Earth.
Since then, space exploration has advanced tremendously. Humanity can now translate Into life very daring ideas not only in near Earth space but in deep space as well. What seemed only a dream 30 years ago (on 12 April this year, the world celebrates the 30th anniversary of the
First Manned Spaceflight) can become a reality at the turn of the 21st century.
The new political thinking that has in recent years become dominant in international relations has favourably affected space research. After so many years of alienation, the two leading powers are once again pooling their efforts tn studying the Earth. This certainly is a welcome news for the humanity, particularly at a time when ecological contamination is threatening the very exis tence of life on this beauti ful planet.
Nadia Tabassum. Monipuripara. Tejgaon. Dhaka.