Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People's Wars." In contrast to Western efforts to damp the fires, Red China was gleefully pouring fuel on them. Cheering on Pakistan, Peking accused India of "aggression," aroused fears that it might repeat its 1962 invasion of India. The Chinese thus effectively immobilized at least half a dozen of India's 20 army divisions, which remained grimly in place along the northern border...
...postwar era has focused on Europe, still has to adjust fully to the encircling revolution in Asia. The U.S. has yet to extend to the Far East the hard and fast guarantees of collective security that made NATO so potent a deterrent. And, as anti-American outbursts in Paris, Pakistan and Indonesia demonstrated last week, it is not always easy to keep allies, let alone to find them. Yet, at a time when Asia's Communists are only too plainly making common cause, it is up to the Johnson Administration to make ringingly clear that the U.S. will...
Praise for Prudence. There was only one other problem-a G.O.P. attempt, prompted by the India-Pakistan hostilities, to cut off aid to any country in armed conflict with another U.S.-aided nation. Administration forces moved quickly to nip off the threat. Mahon took the floor, pointed out that under such a stricture, the U.S. could not send aid to India if it was invaded by Red China while fighting Pakistan. Warned Mahon: "It would be a horrendous thing for this Government to tie its hands under these circumstances." House Republican leaders, who had obviously overlooked such an eventuality, canceled...
...dawn one morning last week, war came to the dusty Pakistan village of Dhankeal, near Lahore. Mystère jets of the Indian air force slammed rockets into a train at the station, killing three passengers and wounding eleven. Wakened by the explosions, a young peasant named Zakaullah clambered to the roof of his mud hut. "I saw planes in the sky," he said. "And suddenly they started throwing things with fire coming from them. Then one plane started to fall. It came down with a big noise...
Near by bearded Mohammed Sharif was leaving the village mosque after morning prayer when he looked up and saw the French-built Mystères in a dogfight with U.S.-made F-86 jets of the Pakistan air force. With peasant wisdom Sharif decided, "The Indians must be losing in Kashmir. Now they are trying to bother us down here." He urged the young men of the village to arm themselves with clubs and search through the cane and cornfields for downed Indian pilots...