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On January 14, 1972, while arguing for the need of early US recognition of Bangladesh in his telegram no. 158 to the US Department of State, Herbert D. Spivack, the then US consul general in Dhaka from the Pakistan era, referred to the "basket case," which by the time had already become public knowledge:
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