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...Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto wrote to Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi and assured her that had we ever the intention of starting a war with India--and we have no reason--we could hardly win it with the spare parts and few other items we'll be buying from the U.S." Akhund said...
India, which technically can also buy U.S. arms now, though it is unlikely to do so, reacted immediately and bitterly to the Washington move. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi spoke out against "Pakistan's new belligerence," and at week's end visiting Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko joined with New Delhi in a communique ex pressing "grave anxiety at the actions taken by certain quarters to step up the arms race." Indian Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan, who was scheduled to pre side with Kissinger over the first meeting of an Indo-U.S. Joint Commission that had been...
...most respected political leaders, Jayaprakash Narayan, 72, a founder of the Socialist Party and one of the last of Gandhi's immediate disciples. Narayan has been pressing for new elections in Bihar as a way of fighting political corruption there. The New Delhi government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has opposed these efforts-partly because her Congress Party has a majority in Bihar, and partly because her government does not want to permit such an unsettling precedent...
...from Washington three weeks ago on an extended 17-day trip to 15 nations, his itinerary was a mixture of must calls and maybes. The Secretary of State's official visits definitely included Moscow, for discussions on détente; New Delhi, for conciliatory talks with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; and Rome, for the World Food Conference (see page 42). The Middle East was among the maybes...
...flew to New Delhi last week, reporters accompanying him noticed that he seemed uncharacteristically subdued. Perhaps he was preoccupied with weighty matters involving Moscow and the Middle East. On the other hand, he may only have been a bit apprehensive about seeing India's proud, mercurial Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Their last meeting, which coincided with the start of a U.S. "tilt" toward Pakistan during the Bangladesh crisis of 1971, ended in mutual distrust. Mrs. Gandhi has since been known to turn livid at the very mention of Kissinger's name. Prospects for a successful encounter seemed...