Word: kutch
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Though strong in the streets, Jana Sangh was weak in Parliament. Its anti-government motion was overwhelmingly defeated, 262 to 17. Despite the new fighting in Kashmir, Prime Minister Shastri was determined to eradicate the causes of the old fighting in the barren Rann of Kutch where Indians and Pakistanis had clashed last spring. But he canceled the scheduled visit of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto to discuss the Rann of Kutch because "no useful purpose" would be served...
Thus, the problem will automatically be put before a three-man tribunal. India and Pakistan will each select one member, while the vital third will be a man acceptable to both countries. The ruling Congress Party introduced a motion approving the Kutch agreement and giving Shastri a free hand to reach a settlement. It was accepted by Parliament...
...policies, which stressed industry and paid little attention to the more basic problem of agriculture. And looming in the background was the seemingly insoluble deadlock with Pakistan, typified not only by the Kashmir question but also by the threat to India's borders in the desolate Rann of Kutch...
...inchoate strength. By merely surviving for 14 months in a situation that many thought might end in anarchy, Shastri has shown that India has a chance. His weaknesses alone-concilia tory, hesitant, dilatory as they are-have been magical in their muddling. He was firm only in the Kutch incident, when he sent two divisions of Indian troops to within 300 yards of Pakistan's fortified positions, and that won him support at home. His trips abroad-to Cairo, Moscow, Ottawa, London and Belgrade-earned headlines at home for a man who was at least patrolling the old capitals...
...have watched the diminutive Prime Minister grow in skill and confidence after a shaky start. His trips to the Soviet Union, Canada and Britain have given him big headlines at home; he has weathered a major food crisis and worked out a truce with Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch. Last week, with Desai safely quenched for the moment, Shastri flew off for another foreign journey-this time to Yugoslavia for talks with Marshal Tito...