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Perhaps it should be called a decrease-fire. Whatever the word, India and Pakistan last week demonstrated the flexibility of their own, ten-day-old ceasefire. From Kashmir to the Sind, patrols probed at one another, hoping to grab more high ground before the United Nations truce could be properly policed. During the course of the week, India charged Pakistan with 42 violations; Pakistan charged India with...
...keeping-operation dues (notably Russia, and France) vote anyway-despite Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which stipulates that debtor members shall not. Then, scant hours before the Assembly opened, the U.N. Security Council in a rare and impressive show of Big Power unanimity arranged the cease-fire in Kashmir. And in just a week Pope Paul VI, spiritual leader of a fifth of the world's people, was to arrive from Rome to wish an historic godspeed to the U.N. and its peacemaking role...
...demands for a vast disarmament conference that would include Peking, which the U.S. is not likely to welcome. The future of peace-keeping operations remains unresolved and controversial. To these familiar problems a new one has been added: Pakistan's threat to withdraw from the U.N. if the Kashmir ceasefire is not followed by a plebiscite in the disputed vale-something India is equally adamant in resisting...
Victory, in fact, belonged to no one in last week's ceasefire. Kashmir remained divided. India still claimed 690 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory (see map), but had failed by a scant three miles to capture the strategic Sialkot plateau. Pakistan held 250 sq. mi. of Indian Kashmir and Rajasthan, but had lost -temporarily at least - half its armor. And Red China had lost that most val uable of Asian commodities: face...
...wave of euphoria swept the population, but not the top level of Indian leadership. Shastri took to the radio to puncture the jubilation. "Pakistan is still in a bellicose mood," he said. "I must state clearly that if Pakistan launches an attack again on the state of Jammu and Kashmir, we shall meet the challenge with full determination and full force. Let there be no miscalculations again." Shastri evidently had in mind infiltrations of Pakistani "freedom fighters," whose raids had triggered the crisis. Indeed, no sooner was the cease-fire in effect than each side accused the other of violations...