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Mujib Takes FourMore Cabinet PostsDACCA (AP) - Sheik Miijl-biir Rahman took over four other Cabinet posts Timr3day in addition to his main job of prime minister of Bangladesh. „He will serve additionally as minister of defense, home affairs, information and Cabinet affairs.Mujfb gave up the presidency on Wednesday and became prime minister in a parliamentary government. The post of president was reduced in power.A government announcement said Abdus Samad Azad will continue in the 12-man Cabinet as foreign minister, the job hej has held since Dec. 28 under the caretaker government that set up operations in Dacca after the Indian army defeated the Pakistanis on Dec 16.from imprisonment in Pakistan, was named minister cf industry, trade and commerce.Controls PolicePro-Moscow SentimentSamad is considered to be pro-Moscow, although the new government has not yet spelled out its foreign policy except to say it will be nonaligned. Sa-mad last month replaced Khandkar Mustaque Ahmed, a pro-West leader of the sheik’s Awami League who served as foreign minister when the Bangladesh government was in exile in India.Mujib gave the former prime minister, Tnjuddin Ahmed, the portfolios of finance and planning, and Syed Nazrul Islam, who was acting president until Mujib returned on MondayBy holding the home and defense posts, Mujib will exercise direct control over the police and military forces, both outgrowths of the Mukti Bahini guerrillas who did most of the fighting against Pakistani rule until India invaded cn Dec. 3.Besides Samad, two others of the nine holdovers from the caretaker Cabinet held the same positions—A. H. M. Kar-maruzzaman, relief and rehabilitation minister, and Prof. M. Yusuf Ali, education and cultural affairs.The only new minister, Dr. Kamarl Hussain, got the Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs to oversee the draftingof a constitution to replace the provisional constitutional order Mujib issue Tuesday night.Youngest ManAt 35, the youngest member of the Cabinet, Hussain is a constitutional law expert, lie; was a driving force behind (lie Bangladesh independence movement and was jailed in Pakistan with Mujib throughout the nine-month revolution and the two-week India-Pakistan war.In New Delhi, the Czechoslovak Embassy said it is sending “a senior diplomat” to Dacca for consultations on recognition of Bangladesh.“Tha Czech government is, of course, in favor of recognition of Bangladesh but it is a question of time,” a spokesman said.
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