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...Indira Gandhi...
...since gaining independence in 1947 has India faced a more mighty challenge: the threat of a war with Pakistan that could engulf the entire subcontinent. Yet as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made her way across Europe on a six-nation tour that will bring her to Washington this week, she was forced to concede that her countrymen badly need help to rise to this occasion...
...first leg of her journey, the Prime Minister activated the country's military reservists for the first time since the 1965 clash with Pakistan over Kashmir. During the past three weeks, moreover, India has built up its forces along its borders with both Pakistan and China. Whatever misgivings Indira had about leaving at such a critical moment were plainly outweighed by the belief that the time had come to plead India's case with other world leaders. Indeed, her departure itself, signaling that New Delhi apparently did not believe war to he imminent, served in some measure...
...statement, also sent to Secretary of State William P. Rogers and presented to visiting Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, says that the Administration policy "places the United States on the side of a government which is deliberately flouting the results of a national election, denying East Bengal the most elementary rights of self-determination, and committing wanton massacres against an unarmed people...
...Delhi last week, one member of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Cabinet was heard to remark: "War is inevitable." In Islamabad, President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan spent the better part of a 40-minute television speech railing against the Indians, whom he accused of "whipping up a war frenzy." Along their borders, east and west, both India and Pakistan massed troops. Both defended the action as precautionary, but there was a real danger that a minor border incident could suddenly engulf the subcontinent...