Word: goa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true colors. Never giving a frank and definite response to questions, Nehru proved a master at evading questions on TV during his recent visit to this country. How fitting that this champion pussyfooter got up sufficient nerve to use brute force against those gentle, timid people in Goa who have lived in their country just 400 years...
...pressure to nudge history along has been mounting in India during recent months. In the U.N. last week, India accused Portugal of "wanton attacks" on Indian shipping and fishermen, charged that "heavy reinforcements of Portuguese troops and mercenaries" have been rushed to Goa. In addition, said Nehru, frontier violations, "bad cases of torture," and political "repression" pose "a direct challenge to India." Portugal dismissed India's charges as "barefaced falsehoods," declared that frontier "violations" were simulated by Indian troops who sneaked across the border and came back firing toward their own lines...
...Goa probably has no more than 5,000 soldiers and few if any aircraft. According to most observers, Nehru's "liberation" would take at most a few days. Up to 30,000 crack Indian troops were deployed on Goa's forest-guarded border. Indian jet fighters screamed over the heart of Goa, and its only aircraft carrier cruised off the Goanese port of Marmagoa, Asia's finest harbor. Said a government statement: "Nationalists and underground circles in Goa are openly jubilant, waiting to welcome the Indian army...
Twice last week U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith pleaded with Nehru to settle the dispute by mediation, but the Indian's insistence that Portugal would first have to announce its intention to withdraw from Goa clearly ruled out any likelihood of negotiations. Goa's governor general calmly ordered the evacuation of women and children. Said he: "If necessary, we will die here...
...Goa is attacked, Britain is technically obliged by a 600-year-old treaty to aid the Portuguese with "troops, archers, slingers, galleys sufficiently armed...