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...such, proved difficult for some members of the U.N. Security Council. Such powers as the Soviet Union, China and India feared setting a precedent of intervention in what have always been considered internal affairs that could someday be applied to their treatment of the Baltic republics, Tibet or Kashmir. Washington saw little chance of getting a resolution through the Security Council...
...latest row culminates an ongoing feud between the two men. Among other things, Gandhi has objected to Chandrashekhar's efforts to open talks with insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, his fiscal-austerity proposals and his decision to let U.S. warplanes bound for the Persian Gulf refuel in India...
Singh is also wrestling with problems inherited from his predecessors, including separatist movements in Punjab, Assam, and Jammu and Kashmir that have claimed 4,000 lives this year. These rebellions are a reaction to the increasing centralization of power in New Delhi, particularly during the tenures of the late Indira Gandhi and her son, Rajiv, who was ousted as Prime Minister last November...
Tension between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is intense, and with war between them a real possibility, neither is likely to halt its nuclear weapons program. Spector estimates the Indian nuclear arsenal at 40 to 60 bombs. Pakistan sees its weapons as a deterrent to India's nuclear and conventional military superiority...
Federalism is the most boring word in the American political lexicon. Around the world, however, it's a fightin' word. Some countries will break, some blood will flow over it. From Kashmir to Quebec, the world is seething with secessionists who have had enough of the federations to which history and colonial masters have assigned them. They want...