Word: goa
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Menon has been given a chance to gain popularity by grabbing Goa from the Portuguese, and by arguing India's claim to disputed Kashmir in the U.N. But his arrogance and impenetrable prejudices irritate most politicians. Menon's health is also in question; last fall he had a brain operation, and reportedly will soon undergo another. Replying to an Independence Day tribute last week, Menon murmured: "Personalities die, but not causes." Many an Indian, pained at the cloudy succession question, would add that it takes a personality to run a country...
Congressmen are mad at Yugoslavia's Tito for snarling at U.S. nuclear testing during the Belgrade Conference while continuing to ask for U.S. aid. They are angry at India's Nehru for gobbling up Goa and for seeking Russian arms that his country could not afford without U.S. aid. They are mad at Brazil for expropriating a U.S. telephone subsidiary, and at Ghana's Nkrumah for his Marxist chatter...
Morally, says McCloy, the neutrals have dissipated "their position as guardians of the world's conscience" by not reacting more strongly against Soviet resumption of nuclear tests last fall or against India's cynical grab of Goa. Practically, very few of them "have even one man, much less an adequate staff, whose whole time and preoccupation are applied to [disarmament] . . . Those who sit on the sideline and merely chant 'general and complete disarmament without putting their minds to mastering the difficulties of the problem [do not] make much of a contribution...
Shortly after the Indians invaded Goa three months ago, Jacqueline Kennedy postponed a scheduled trip to India; the illness of Father-in-Law Joseph P. Kennedy was her ostensible reason. Last week, Jackie's sinuses were acting up. Her condition, reported Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, made it necessary to postpone her scheduled departure for India until this week-and to reduce her visit from 22 days to 14. There was no lack of speculation in Washington and New Delhi that Jackie's sinus condition was a sensitive diplomatic barometer, affected by John Kennedy's pique...
...There is no doubt in my own mind that Goa should belong to India." Rudolph concluded "I only question the means...