Word: mohan
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Freeze & Famine. The military good news was long overdue, though minor in scope, and indicated that General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, the border commander, was beginning to use to good advantage the U.S. and British automatic weapons and heavy mortars being flown in around the clock. At Kaul's headquarters in Tezpur, India's venerable President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 74, visited hospitalized Gurkha, Sikh and Jat soldiers, many of whom had wandered famished and freezing through the mountains for 17 days after the big Chinese breakthrough last month. "Morale is high," Radhakrishnan told newsmen. "All the troops...
Taskmaster for the border war is Lieut. General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, a Kashmiri Brahman distantly related to Prime Minister Nehru. When the Chinese Reds overwhelmed the Indian border posts last month, General Kaul was absent-ill with pneumonia, he had been evacuated, almost by force, to New Delhi. Now fully recovered and back at his headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army...