Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Line-Up. For the U.S., the war offered no easy choices. Since World War II, Washington has lavished some $4 billion in military and economic aid on India in hopes of building it into an Asian showcase for democracy on China's border. As for Pakistan, it was among the most trusted friends of the U.S. until Washington began sending India arms in the wake of Red China's 1962 invasion. And, though Pakistan's resentment led to an increasingly warm flirtation with Red China, it is still the only member-aside from Britain-of both...
Despite Peking's eagerness to see India take a shellacking, the war hardly fits China's devoutly held Leninist belief in an inevitable clash between Com munism and the "capitalist-imperialist" West. Here were two former colonial states, both Asian and both underdeveloped, at each other's throats. Yet Communist China tirelessly reiterates that it is precisely such nations-the "have nots" of Asia, Africa and Latin America-that must eventually encircle the West and destroy it in a worldwide holocaust of "people's wars." Time and again, Peking has shown its readiness to provoke such...
...Asian Hitler. It is an article of faith in Pakistan that India's ultimate goal is to conquer the subcontinent by force. As Pakistan's U.N. ambassador emotionally put it last week, "What Hitler and the Nazis did in Europe, India has taken it upon herself to do in Asia...
...tank battle last week abruptly escalated the Kashmir trouble from a border skirmish to the brink of all-out war. The contending Asian powers are evenly matched. India's army is the larger (867,000 to 253,000), but the Pakistanis are much better equipped. In a contest of quantity versus quality, India could probably overrun populous but poorly defended East Pakistan in a matter of weeks but might meet disaster in the arid uplands of West Pakistan...
...that his line is being tapped. Though the Mail has been campaigning for nothing more radical than a judicial enquiry into prison practices, Verwoerd's state radio and the Afrikaans newspapers that support him regularly describe the English-language Mail as "a source for the Communist and Afro-Asian propaganda machines." Some Thanks. But the protests against the Mail come not from official sources alone. A torrent of abuse was pouring into Gandar's office from an angry public that seemed to think Verwoerd should get far tougher with the Mail. "Hang down your head in shame...