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...short order, India's shamefully ill-prepared troops were retreating at full tilt on both border fronts, the world's largest working democracy was paralyzed with shock and humiliation, and the Western world had new reason to fret about the Chinese menace. Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, the great apostle of nonviolence, thundered that Communist China had proved itself "a wholly irresponsible country that does not care about peace." In the White House, John Kennedy quickly agreed to New Delhi's urgent request for U.S. arms. Explained Phillips Talbot, Kennedy's Assistant Secretary of State...
...rich green umbrellas of chestnut trees in the final dazzle of bloom. A light, misty rain coated the grass and clung to the dark blue jackets of the Garde Républicaine. At 6:30, loudspeakers crackled that the two men would appear at 7. British journalists began to fret about some unexpected "difficulty." A French correspondent grumbled: "The general was always on time, even when he said...
Peace Committee. The West Pakistani government has good reason to fret about its image. Since the crackdown on the breakaway state of Bangla Desh began late in March, at least 200,000 have died-almost all of them Bengalis. In addition, more than 1,500,000 Bengalis have fled to India, and those who have stayed behind are threatened with an approaching famine that the government does not seem anxious to combat. Most outside observers have laid the responsibility for the East Pakistani tragedy to the hobnail-tough martial law imposed by Lieut. General Tikka (meaning "red hot") Khan...
...public, Taipei's leaders continue to rail against "appeasement." But in private a more realistic reassessment of Taiwan's future is under way. Some Taiwanese fret that anything so dramatic as walking out of the U.N. the moment Communist China comes in might cost the Chiang regime much of its good will in the U.S., and thus accelerate the trend toward U.S. accommodation with Peking. As one Nationalist official puts it, the great fear is that ultimately "a two-China policy might lead to a one-China policy." By that he meant a situation under which...
...Administration disagreed and turned down Moscow's plan. White House strategists contend that the Soviets are merely trying to get rid of Safeguard on the cheap. The Russians, they claim, fret that the ABM can be upgraded from a shield for individual silos into a defense for much wider areas against a Soviet counterstrike. That would enable the U.S. to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union with less fear of retaliation, upsetting the nuclear "balance of terror...