Word: goa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being trampled by an elephant and needled by a mosquito, the easier enemy to avoid is the elephant. The wiser thing to do would be to first destroy the mosquito and then to go for the elephant. Nehru has done well in driving away the Portuguese mosquito from Goa. By Indian troops taking over Goa, the Chinese dragon (or elephant) has taken notice of Indian strength. Even if Nehru is doing his best to ignore Communist China's incursion into Northern India, the Indian nation...
...should the American press criticize our action in Goa? Did the Americans win their independence by nonviolence...
...seemed like just another Christmas dance in Goa's capital city of Pangim. Still dressed in their jungle-green combat uniforms, 300 Indian army officers of the conquering "Black Cat" 17th division shuffled in time to the music. Patiently the 300-man stag line waited to dance with the only women who had been inveigled to attend the dance-three lonely Goan girls. "They don't like us," said an Indian officer. "They don't want jungle green here. They want white skins...
...himself and Home Affairs Minister Edzo Toxopeus. wants Papuan self-determination guaranteed by the Indonesians before sitting down to the conference table. In Indonesia, Sukarno is restrained by the fact that an invasion of New Guinea is a far more risky military operation than was the Indian walkover in Goa. Should the invasion fail, Sukarno might well be overthrown as a consequence...
...scorn heaped on India's Prime Minister Nehru for his invasion of Goa was almost unanimous in the world's press. Samples...