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Despite the confused reports concerning the recent fighting on the Sino-Indian border, one thing is clear: the Chinese have been planning their offensive for some time. The skill and effectiveness with which they deployed their troops over rugged Himalayan terrain indicates a carefully prepared battle scheme...
...past three years, India's struggle with Red China over their disputed Himalayan border has been more of a shouting than a shooting match. But last week, in an isolated area of the North East Frontier Agency near the border of Chinese-held Tibet, Indian and Chinese frontier guards engaged in a mortar and grenade duel that resulted in 55 casualties -33 Chinese and 22 Indians. As usual, both sides claimed that the other was the aggressor. What was unusual was a new Indian toughness toward the Chinese...
India and Red China have exchanged more diplomatic notes than bullets in their territorial wrangle over the disputed Himalayan border between the two countries. Last week China passed India its 76th note in nine months-and clearly indicated that it thought its southern neighbor was the pawn in what Jawaharlal Nehru has described as a "game of military chess" along the ill-defined frontier...
...issue involved the acrid quarrel between India and Pakistan over the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir, where a U.N. cease-fire line keeps an uneasy truce between the two countries. India has ignored U.N. resolutions calling for a self-determination plebiscite in Kashmir because it fears that the predominantly Moslem province would opt to go with Moslem Pakistan. When Ireland (with U.S. backing) introduced another mild resolution in the Security Council to bring the two countries together in negotiations, the measure was promptly killed by the Russians, with whom India is currently dickering for two squadrons...
...Himalayan snows melted, fighting started again in India's shadow war with Red China for control of the vast border region (TIME. April 6). Prime Minister Nehru last week accused the Chinese of new incursions across India's mountain frontier-and he was talking tougher to Peking than ever before...