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...Monkey Brigade. Judged by that criterion, Indira bodes well indeed for India. "My public life," she declares, "began when I was three." Her mother, a frail Kashmiri, was a Congress Party leader in Indira's native city, Allahabad. Father was heir apparent to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the independence movement. Grandfather was a wealthy lawyer and an early member of the Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both...
Despite a warning from the Fulbright Committee not to talk politics, Miss Levine, with her penchant for public opinion polls, had spoken to many Kashmiri...
...wrote to Newsweek that since the overwhelming majority of Kashmiri is Moslem (the state religion of Pakistan), they tend to be anti-Indian. Miss Levine also stressed that accounts of anti-Indian sentiment are systematically omitted from the Indian press...
...into its sixth tense week with not the slightest prospect for a settlement. Indeed, if words were any measure, the situation was worse. Rising before the U.N. Security Council, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto charged India with conducting a reign of terror in Kashmir, quoting a Kashmiri as having told the press: "Indian troops have cut off the breasts of our girls and held them up saying, 'Here is your Pakistan!'" With that, India's white-turbaned Foreign Minister Swaran Singh led his delegation out of the Security Council.* Hooted Pakistan's Bhutto...
...estimated 3,000 mujahids made the trip. It seemed an obviously doomed operation. The Indian share of Kashmir is firmly held by 100,000 troops. Though most Kashmiri Moslems would undoubtedly vote to join Pakistan, few showed any inclination to die for the cause. The infiltrators were rounded up or slain with considerable ease, but the outcries from the Indian government often made it sound as if Kashmir were being invaded by hordes of warlike Huns...