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...firefights kept the situation tense and dangerous through the week. Scene of the biggest battle was a slender salient of India that points sharply into East Pakistan some 20 miles west of the Pakistani city of Jessore, an important railhead that leads to key ports on the Bay of Bengal. Early last week, according to a Pakistani general, one battalion of Indian regulars operating alongside a battalion of Mukti Bahini crossed the Indian border point of Boyra. From there, camouflaged with netting and supported by tanks and heavy artillery, they thrust northeastward along a U-shaped front into East Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: India and Pakistan: Poised for War | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...Parliament and plead for patience toward her handling of the crisis with Pakistan. The urgent need for a solution was all too apparent. Officials in New Delhi said that the biggest frontier battle yet between Indians and Pakistanis occurred when 2,800 Pakistani regulars crossed the border into West Bengal. Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram rose in Parliament to say that if India was attacked, it would "carry the war into Pakistan." Indians across the country, meanwhile, were placing bets on when-not if-war with Pakistan would take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Not If, But When | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Communal Tensions. Beyond the financial cost, the presence of 9,700,000 refugees threatens to create social turmoil and revive communal tensions. There are 7,000,000 in West Bengal alone, and still they come. The Indian government, moreover, is fearful that many of the refugees, particularly the Hindus who were singled out for persecution by Pakistan's Moslem military, will refuse to return to their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Not If, But When | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Last March, when the exodus began, thousands of Indians living in the border areas rushed forward to offer assistance. Today the torrent of men. women and children has so exacerbated tensions that armed guards have been placed at the camps, and West Bengal officials are securing relief camps with barbed-wire fencing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Not If, But When | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...Problem. While there has so far been a noticeable lack of the bitter Hindu-Moslem religious tensions that resulted in widespread massacres at the time of the 1947 partition, the economic and population strains on West Bengal have become extremely acute. Already suffering from overcrowding and underemployment, the state has never fully recovered economically from the influx of some 4,000,000 predominantly Hindu refugees, who fled to West Bengal when East Bengal chose to become part of Moslem Pakistan in 1947. Ever since, the area has been a fertile ground for political turmoil among terrorist groups, criminals masquerading under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Not If, But When | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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