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Russia's fence-straddling new bosses, Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, provided no public backing for India against Pakistan in the bitter Rann of Kutch controversy; not a word of support against the Chinese Communists, who for years have been nibbling at India's Himalayan borders; not even a clear-cut promise of more aid and trade. In fact, the Russians chided India for failing to use fully the aid already pledged-$1 billion, or roughly one-fifth of what the U.S. has given-and for not developing full capacity at the woefully inefficient Ranchi heavy-machine plant...
...champagne bottles, and turbaned bandsmen struck up tunes from My Fair Lady as lissome American girls, friends of the Queen who had flown in for the occasion, joined young Sikkimese aristocrats in dancing. Even the King and Queen did the twist and a quartet of Sikkimese Beatles shrilled their Himalayan version of I Want to Hold Your Hand...
...cordiality toward the Communist Chinese brought Ayub another diplomatic gain last week, at the expense of India, whose military threat to Pakistan, he insisted, "is increasing day by day." In Karachi, Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi signed a pact delineating a 300-mile Himalayan border between China and Pakistan, thus implying Peking recognition of Pakistan's suzerainty (disputed by India) over the part of Kashmir it actually controls...
Ayub's friendship with Peking dates from 1962, when China began chewing up India's Himalayan border. As the U.S., Britain and even Soviet Russia began rushing arms to his Indian enemies, Ayub decided that only Red China shared his dislike for India. Within six months, Ayub had signed a trade pact with China, a border agreement that threw Chinese support behind Pakistan's demands for disputed Kashmir, and a contract that established joint airline service between Karachi, Dacca, Canton and Shanghai. With that, the U.S. withheld a $4,300,000 loan for an airport at Dacca...
...that the pro-Peking Communists would be denied their electoral victory. As it is, 25 of their winning candidates are already in jail, having been imprisoned without trial since last December under an emergency decree issued at the time of Red China's invasion of India's Himalayan border. Shastri may again arrange for an appointed governor to rule Kerala. If he does, Kerala's Red boss, E.M.S. Nam-boodiripad, has said he will set off statewide demonstrations against the government...