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...Catholics. Although President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri will greet the Pope in Bombay, many Indian officials are miffed that Paul refused to visit New Delhi. The papal trip also cuts no ice with Portugal, which has never forgiven India for seizing its old colony of Goa in 1961. In honor of the Bom bay congress, Goa is exposing for 44 days of veneration its most famous relic, the mummified body of the 16th century Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier-minus one toe that was bitten off by an overzealous worshiper in 1859 and part...
...that even now people in the U.S. consider Nehru's action in Goa as a diversion from his policy of peace and nonviolence. They do not understand that, after patient urging for 14 years, this "prince of peace" had to use force to cleanse the "Indian temple" that had been defiled by colonialists for centuries...
...rebuttal, Portuguese Foreign Minister Alberto Franco Nogueira bitterly recalled that 1) his country saw its Asian enclave of Goa overrun by India in 1961, and 2) the Congo officially established military training camps against Angola, both without U.N. protest. Said he: "We have two sets of countries. Some are allowed anything they please with any justification which may occur to them; others...
...country by a wave of ugly violence and a boycott of Asian shops. East Africans were cheered last week by the departure from Mozambique of the last batch of 4,600 Indians deported to their homeland by Portuguese authorities in revenge for India's 1961 takeover of Goa. In Tanganyika, all 6,000 Asian civil servants will lose their jobs as soon as enough Africans can be found to replace them...
...tape. It was over a year before local merchants were allowed to pick up goods imported and paid for before liberation, by which time much of the stuff had rotted away on the docks of Mormugão harbor. Though Portugal oppressively banned all political opposition, it did give Goa a considerable amount of local autonomy. Under New Delhi's rule, Goa hoped at least to become a separate state. But the neighboring Indian states of Mysore and Maharashtra, covetous of Goa's economic potential and of Mormugão harbor, which is one of the finest harbors...