BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug. 22 —The new Foreign Minister of Bangladesh today depicted his country and its new President as desperately striving for stability while trying to feed and clothe some 80 million people for whom day‐to‐day existence is a constant struggle.

The minister, Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, was interviewed aboard a plane from the Dacca airport, where this correspondent was denied admission to Bangladesh.

Foreign Minister Chowdhury who served as President of Bangladesh from the formation of its first government in January, 1972, until his resignation in December, 1973, also made the following principal points:

¶Sheik Mujibur Rahman, assassinated early last Friday together with his family as they slept in their home on the outskirts of Dacca, was over thrown because “he was unable to provide for the needs of the people, and toward the end his regime took the clear shape of one‐ran rule.”

¶The first priorities of the new regime, as discussed last night at a’ Cabinet meeting in Dacca, the capital, are “food, clothing and maintaining law and order.” The last, Mr. Chowdhury said, did not necessarily mean the indefinite prolongation of martial law. He said that it might be lifted soon in some areas.

¶He has been assured by the major nations giving aid to Bangladesh that this aid will not be curtailed as a result of the coup. The United States is the largest donor.

Minister Gets Word

Mr. Chowdhury said that he was called at 4 P.M. on the day of the — coup by the Cabinet secretary to the Prime Minister and told that he had been selected as Foreign Minister.

“The President said that the Cabinet would function as collective responsibility,” Mr. Chowdhury said, referring to Sheik Mujib's succesor, Khondaltar Mushtaque Ahmed. “I felt then, that it was my duty and I could not stand aside.”

Even as Mr. Chowdhury was being sworn in yesterday, however, the new President was continuing his clampdown on the country. Travelers reported that some of the, dozen or so tanks that first rolled through the streets of Dacca on the morning of the coup were still on patrol there.

At the airport, soldiers manned antiaircraft guns and other soldiers armed with automatic weapons surrounded every arriving plane.

Moat foreign journalists, originally admitted on Wednesday, were expelled today and other foreign reporters seeking to enter the country today were turned back at the airport.

However, travelers from Dacca and other areas of the country said that the scenes of starvation and despair on the streets and in the towns had not changed since the coup.

It is foreign aid, according to Mr. Chowdhury and foreign officials, that will determine whether the new regime is able to survive.

Mr. Chowdhury said that top priority of the Mushtaque Ahmed Government was elimination of the corruption and black marketeering that sapped most of the aid programs of their strength and impact. He said it was “still too early to know what changes will be made.”

He said that the Indian Ambassador had called on him an hour before a general diplomatic reception this afternoon and assured him of India's continued friendship and desire to assist the new regime.

There has been considerable speculation that New Delhi will be cool to the Bangladesh leaders who overthrew the Mujib regime that Indian armed forces helped set up after independence.

Mr. Chowdhury said the Indian Ambassador had stated that there was no idea of any Indian armed intervention. Rumors of such an intervention had been rife in Dacca the last several days

Assurance From India

“The Indian Ambassador assured me that such talk is in the nature of a villification,” Mr. Chowdhury said.

Relief and international‐aid officials said that so far little had changed in the way of easing the critical situation in which hundreds of Bengalis are dying of starvation.

The” annual monsoon floods have begun in the delta area and in the plains around Dacca and thousands of acres of fertile, food‐producing land are under water.

At the airport, immigration officials detained for hours a number of relief officials seeking to enter the country.

One World Bank‐official said that there was no indication• of any change in the lending policy of the bank; which has been lending Bangladesh millions annually in agricultural development funds.

As to the effect of the loans, he shook his head and said:

“There has. ‘no change. There is still despair everywhere. I was to have been here three weeks. It is now three weeks and I am leaving, and I am almost relieved.”