Dhaka, Oct. 22 -- The Testimony of Sixty on the Crisis in Bengal carried statements and articles written by famous figures such as Mother Teresa and Senator Edward Kennedy, along with well-known journalists such as Anthony Mascarenhas, John Pilger, Nicolas Tomalin, Clare Hollingworth, and Martin Woollacott.

I personally collected many of the statements from people in Kolkata and I remember one day sending a telex to Oxfam full of statements which took 75 minutes to send over the wires. Copies of The Testimony of Sixty were handed over to many heads of governments, and its publication coincided with the opening of that year's United Nations General Assembly, where it was distributed to all ambassadors to the UN.

The day before the offici...