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What will happen
to Munir?
If the TDS report (03 Oct 2013) is correct, Munir Chowdhury will not find any 'milk of human kindness' at Milk Vita. His honesty certainly shunted him out of environment and now what awaits him? Welcome (!) to the growing ranks of OSDs.
SikanderAhmed
Niketon, Dhaka
'The Chittagong connection1
I want to thank you for giving extensive coverage to the topic “The Chittagong connection" in your Literature page. Uday Sankar Das has given a very comprehensive report on various literary and cultural personalities who were involved in making Chittagong a beacon of progressive values and thoughts. Those days will never come back, but the pleasant memories will remain forever. Once again, thank you, The Daily Star.
Ranjit Sarkar
On e-mail
Victim of UAE visa ban
I worked as an area sales manager in an international finance house in Abu Dhabi. I got the position by competing with different nationals. Last year I tried to switch to a global bank in the position of team leader. But at that time UAE employment visa was banned for Bangladeshi nationals. So, although I signed the joining letter in that bank, I could not join there in reality. More than one year has passed, but the situation remains the same. No successful diplomatic talks took place between Bangladesh and UAE government by this time.
Anonymous
Abu Dhabi
UAE
US should look closer forWMD
At the height of the Cold War, the United States had 32,000 nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union had 35,000. So right now, the number of weapons that both the Soviet Union and the United States have on alert ready to be launched combined is maybe between 2000 and 2500. So, to go from 60,000 to 2,500, you know 8,000 to 10,000, is a huge achievement; but there needs to be much greater reductions.
When the U.S. dropped more than 72 million litres of poisonous chemicals in Vietnam, or in Laos where there are millions of unexploded cluster bombs littering the countryside, left over from U.S. raids, or in Cambodia or Korea. Or, if they're interested in more recent WMD, the weapons inspectors could check out Afghanistan, where the U.S. left behind some 500 to 600 tons of depleted uranium, or Iraq itself, where there's several times that much, causing cancer, birth defects and deaths in both countries.
A little closer to home, if the U.S. wants to dig up even more WMD, it could go down to its former firing ranges in Panama where it left at least 100,000 bombs and artillery rounds strewn across more than 7,000 acres, as well as mustard gas bombs that they dropped and forgot about during decades of chemical weapons tests there. So if the U.S. is really interested in weapons of mass destruction, it can find plenty that it left behind itself in its wars or on its former military bases!
Ted Rudow III, MA
EncinaAve
Palo Alto, CA