Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congressmen are mad at Yugoslavia's Tito for snarling at U.S. nuclear testing during the Belgrade Conference while continuing to ask for U.S. aid. They are angry at India's Nehru for gobbling up Goa and for seeking Russian arms that his country could not afford without U.S. aid. They are mad at Brazil for expropriating a U.S. telephone subsidiary, and at Ghana's Nkrumah for his Marxist chatter...
Control Mechanism. Most other bankers and businessmen seem less alarmed than the British. A world depression, argues the Indian economist T. T. Krishnamachari, a minister without portfolio in Nehru's cabinet, while possible, is most unlikely. Says Krishnamachari: "I think the world has developed techniques of meeting such things better than...
...Chinese, who are not members and who had expected to exert a measure of control in Outer Mongolia's affairs. In Laos, Russia infuriated China by promoting a deal, however unsteady, with the U.S. and heralding it as "a major accomplishment." In India, Russia has supported Nehru's border war against Red China, first by providing small arms and helicopters for the swift movement of troops, most recently by offering the Indians supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters...
...Himalayan snows melted, fighting started again in India's shadow war with Red China for control of the vast border region (TIME. April 6). Prime Minister Nehru last week accused the Chinese of new incursions across India's mountain frontier-and he was talking tougher to Peking than ever before...
While India would "dislike exceedingly" going to war with China. Nehru said that he was "prepared to meet any step that the Chinese may take." China was taking a new aggressive tone, said Nehru, because "it is clear that the Chinese are rather apprehensive about our growing strength." He rejected the Chinese demand that India withdraw immediately from two new border outposts in the Ladakh area of Kashmir: "W7e propose to remain there; we are not going to move because of any Chinese threats." Nehru even criticized China's internal situation, said that continued poor harvests and a multiplying...