Word: goa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian Ambassador B. K. Nehru last night defended his country's seizure of Goa as the only possible action India could have taken since international law had failed to provide procedures for peaceful change...
...experts on international law unaring the Law School Forum platform with Nehru vigorously attacked the Indian's position on Goa. Roger D. Fisher, professor of Law, called the use of force against the Portuguese enclaves "outrageous, worse than the Russian resumption of nuclear testing...
Fisher suggested that India could have appealed for the U.N. to declare Goa an independent nation and admit it to the General Assembly with the understanding that Goa would immediately appeal for union with India...
...also attacked the Indian contention that since Goa was geographically and culturally part of India, the Indian government had a right to put an end to "illegal" Portuguese occupation unilaterally. Fisher claimed that Ceylon was also inhabited by Indians, and yet no one suggested that that country could be annexed by force...
...Premise has just opened a Washington outpost, where distinguished audiences (including, on occasion, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Senators Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Kenneth Keating, "Scoop" Jackson) have been neighing in the aisles while a performer playing Mahatma Gandhi turns over slowly in his grave after Nehru tells him about Goa, or Chief Sun Cloud, a new Senator from Wyoming, calls up the admissions committee of the Cosmos Club and the committee chairman sighs. "If it isn't one thing, it's another...