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...Indonesia collapsed with the army's assumption of power in 1966; Sudan crushed its own Communists in 1971, blaming Moscow's Eastern European allies for a coup attempt; and Egypt threw out its Soviet advisers in 1972. Though nominally nonaligned, India tilted toward Moscow after Indira Gandhi signed a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in 1971. So far, in her second rise to power, Gandhi insists that India will remain genuinely nonaligned. Somalia brusquely expelled the Soviets from its huge missile and naval base at Berbera in 1977 after Moscow backed Ethiopia in the Ogaden...
...prospect of military aid for Pakistan roused acute concern in neighboring India. One after another, political leaders converged on New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who only three weeks before had swept to an overwhelming comeback victory in parliamentary elections. First to arrive was British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, fresh from two days of talks with Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq. Next Mrs. Gandhi met with Bangladesh's President Ziaur Rahman, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing; this week Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky...
...importance of India's role in shaping a cohesive regional response to the Afghanistan crisis. In the softest possible language, New Delhi had described Moscow's intervention as unjustified and "expressed the hope," as Foreign Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao put it, that the Soviets would withdraw. Mrs. Gandhi's government, however, was equally jittery about the possible creation of a U.S.-Pakistan-China axis, which could push India into an overly close relationship with the Soviet Union, with which it already has a friendship treaty...
...reads the old documents, like the account of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He worries on the phone with France's President Giscard d'Estaing, and he probes cautiously on a call to India's newly elected and infuriating Indira Gandhi. The President's international phoning is now done with the same casualness he uses for Iowa's caucus votes. His list includes Pakistan's Zia, Germany's Schmidt, Egypt's Sadat, Britain's Thatcher. He still writes Brezhnev regular personal letters...
...likely to meet many of Islamabad's specific requests. It will not, however, provide Pakistan with attack aircraft and other offensive weapons that are likely to cause alarm in New Delhi. The new government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has been extremely wary of American arms sales to Islamabad because of fear that once again Pakistan's weapons might be turned on India...