Word: kutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they stop. Pakistan, backed by Red China, passed out leaflets accusing India of imperialist aggression in the Rann of Kutch. A flood of Indonesian papers described Malaysia as a stooge of British imperialism. One Angolan exile movement accused another Angolan exile movement of being "imperialist-supported." And, to top it all off, Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Member Liao Cheng-chih accused Russia of "collaborating with the United States to dominate the world." The fact that most of the 50 delegations present also managed to get in some licks against Washington did nothing at all for the cause of solidarity...
Through an accident of onomatopoeia, the Rann of Kutch* looks just like it sounds. A reeking reach of black tidal mudflats bounded with sand dunes and etched by dead streams of salt and scum, it was until recently of interest only to hardy naturalists in search of the lesser flamingo and herds of wild asses. But the Rann separates India and Pakistan, and that fact alone was sufficient last week to make it another of the world's dangerous little flash points...