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diplomatic counterplay. Two weeks ago, India signed a five-year trade agreement-of unspecified amount-with Moscow, pledging to send jute products, tea, coffee, shellac and black pepper to Russia in return for 39 items, such as petroleum, "iron and steel manufactures," and "a wide range of industrial equipment." This agreement could easily be turned into supplying India with Russian military hardware, if the U.S. and Pakistan made a deal. In New Delhi, foreign diplomats suspect that it was Russia that first suggested this possibility to India...