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Pakistan Accepts IndianCease-Fire Offer14-DaySubcontinent War EndedBy THE ASSOCIATED DRESSPresident Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan of Pakistan accepted the Indian proposal for a cease-fire on the western front today, ending the 14-day war on the Asian subcontinent.Radio Pakistan said Yahya ordered Pakistani forces to stop fighting at 8 p.m.—9:30 a.m. EST—when a unilateral Indiancease-fire in the west was to begi n.“I am accepting the Indian proposal for a cease-fire in the interest of peace and stability in the subcontinent,” Yahya said.Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had announced the cease-fire Thursday after Pakistan’s arniy in East Pakistan. 1,000Infant Bangla DeshSetsUN MissionBy VERNON A. GI IDRY Jr.Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON lt;AP) - The infant nation of Bangla Desh has set up a hopeful diplomatic mission to Ihe United States in makeshift offices above a fabric store in downtown Washington.No national emblem marks the doorway, the elevator ride is shaky and the cellophane tape that tacks the new flag to the wall speaks of impermanence.“•remendous strain” at the Pakistani Embassy as conditions in East Pakistan worsened.’’The ambassador and other West Pakistani officers looked upon us with suspicion. They didn’t trust us,” he said. ‘‘We wore there by sufferance, We didn’t know what would happen to us.”S. Viets PushIn CambodiaBut ihe once and future diplomats who man the Bangla Desh mission look for the day when they will have an embassy to call home, signifying recognition as a nation by the United States.1VJ.R, Siddiqui, chief of the mission, scheduled a news conference today at which he is expected to appeal for recognition and aid for a war-torn population of 78 million.Many members of the mission staff are Bengalis who were foreign service officers at the Pakistani Embassy here. They renounced their Pakistani citizenship and diplomatic status in August. Technically, they are stateless political refugees.“The Slate Department has been very generous to us,” said Sams Kibria, political officer of the mission. Kibria, who also served as political officer at the Pakistani Embassy, said that all who renounced citizenship have been allowed to stay in Ihe United Slates.For Kibria and other members of the mission, the East Pakistan that fell Thursday to a victorious Indian army exists only as historical fact. To them, it is now Bangla Desh.Kibria recalls a period ofBy GEORGE ESPER Associated Press WriterSAIGON lt;AP) - Two South Vietnamese offensives triggered fighting in Cambodia and Vietnam Thursday, including ihe first major battle of (he drive into the Chup rubber plantation in eastern Cambodia. A total of 61 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and 11 South Vietnamese were reportedkilled.Paratroopers and rangers pushing along the southern edge of the 75-square-mile plantation killed 47 North Vietnamese with the help of U.S. air strikes, the South Vietnamese command reported.South Vietnamese losses were seven men killed and 17 wounded, spokesmen said.The drive into Chup is the deepest penetration South Vietnamese forces have made into eastern Cambodia since heavy fighting erupted in the plantation at the height of the dry season last February. Chup is 35 miles from the border and 110 miles northwest of Saigon.About 6,000 troops and more than loo armored vehicles are sweeping through the plantation in an operation launched Monday to destroy North Vietnamese staging areas.miles from Ihe western front, surrendered unconditionally.Despite Ihe surrender, the commander of India’s eastern front said some Pakistani soldiers in outlying areas had apparently not received instructions irom their headquarters in Dacca and were still fighting.Lt. Gen. J.S. Aurora, whoac-eepted Pakistan’s surrender in Dacca, told newsmen that his troops will remain in East Pakistan for a time to help repatriate war prisoners, re-establish law and order and communications, and help with the return of Bengali refugees from India.The general, hailed as a hero by the Bengalis, said the defeated soldiers from West Pakistan were being allowed to keep their weapons until they arrived in POW camps because of fear that vengeful Bengalis “would butcher them” in reprisal for the war on (he Bengali independence forces since last March.“The bitterness in Dacca— you have to see it to believe it.” he said.But he denied that the Mukti Rahini. the Bengali guerrillas, have begun killing captured Pakistani soldiers.Aurora said he expected allPakistani troops to be disarmed within two days and movement of (he prisoners of war to India (o begin “as soon as it can.”In a three-minute speech to Parliament in New Delhi, Mrs.Gandhi said India wants to build its relations with Pakistan on a “basis of friendship.”“This is what precipitated us to call the western cease-fire,” she said,A government spokesman in New Delhi said the Bangla Desh civil administration, led by four senior civil servants, was expected to take over general administrative responsibilities today in Dacca, but that Gen. Aurora would exerciseover-all supervision.Tnn Pnctmnn n Ron IMrs. Gandhi repeated pledges of no reprisals against the Pakistani soldiers from West Pakistan or the East Pakistanis who collaborated with them. Se expressed the hope that Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the East Pakistani political leader held prisoner by Yahya Khan, “will lake his rightful place and lead the Bangla Desh people to peace, progress and prosperity.
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