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Even the beggars of Calcutta are better off than the estimated 15 million people now starving in West Bengal. "In the Kutch district of drought-stricken Gujarat," adds Shepherd, "peasants patiently wait for dogs and vultures to finish picking at the carcasses of dead cattle. The hungry gather up the bones and sell them to mills where they are made into bone dust, a kind of fertilizer...
...first, from October 1947 to Jan. 1, 1949, took place in Kashmir and resulted in the almost equal division of the disputed state. The second was the Rann of Kutch affair on India's southwestern border from April to June 1965. The third, in the fall of 1965, occurred in Kashmir and lasted 22 days...
...began when Ceylon, apparently emboldened by last month's decision of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cede 350 sq. mi. of the worthless Rann of Kutch to Pakistan, suddenly announced that it, and not India, controlled the uninhabited island. The Ceylonese, who are predominantly Buddhist, based their claim largely on the fact that St. Anthony's church on Kachcha Tivu fell within the diocese of the Roman Catholic bishop of the northern Ceylonese city of Jaffna...
...disputed area is a 3,500-sq.-mi. stretch of the Rann of Kutch, a desolate stretch of salt flat and sand dunes that is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea between the two countries and inhabited chiefly by flamingos and wild asses. Pakistan and India fought a number of sharp engagements in the Rann in early 1965, but agreed to submit the conflict to binding international arbitration before a larger border war broke out a few months later over Kashmir. The tribunal turned down Pakistan's bid for the area...
...latitude in dealing with the Communist world. But almost immediately an infuriated Johnson gave instructions to withhold the $225 million pledge earmarked to launch Pakistan's third five year plan. Johnson also indefinitely cancelled Ayub's visit to Washington. In April Pakistan jabbed once more at the Rann of Kutch. India retaliated with a full onslaught of American weapons and Ayub proposed the halting of all arms shipments to either side. The State Department, with its eye still on China, took no action...