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Background: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's return to Dacca on Monday (10th Jan) had a dress rehearsal two days earlier with the return of another Bangladesh leader.

He is Justice Abu Sayed Chowdhory -- Vice-Chancellor of Dacca University.

Mr. Chowdhury has been representing his people at the head of a delegation to the United Nations. He's been out of East Pakistan for nearly a year -- having left for a conference in Geneva just before the recent troubles came out in the open.