Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief sources of weapons for both sides, the U.S. immediately decided to cut off their supplies. But there were still plenty of opportunities for troublemakers to fan the flames by pouring in arms-and a shrill chorus of support for Pakistan suggested that such accomplished chaos lovers as Red China and Indonesia might do just that...
...Line-Up. For the U.S., the war offered no easy choices. Since World War II, Washington has lavished some $4 billion in military and economic aid on India in hopes of building it into an Asian showcase for democracy on China's border. As for Pakistan, it was among the most trusted friends of the U.S. until Washington began sending India arms in the wake of Red China's 1962 invasion. And, though Pakistan's resentment led to an increasingly warm flirtation with Red China, it is still the only member-aside from Britain-of both...
Britain, unhappy over a war between the Commonwealth's two most populous members, followed Washington's example and stopped its $50 million a year in military aid to India (it sends no arms to Pakistan); but it could do no more.* Moscow was equally helpless. Unwilling to endanger Russia's ties with India, and fearful of pushing Pakistan even closer to Peking, Communist Premier Aleksei Kosygin appealed to both to "stop the tanks and silence the guns...
Other nations were less embarrassed about taking sides. Grateful for Pakistan's moral support in its dispute with Greece over Cyprus, Turkey lined up with its fellow Islamic state. Iran also supported Pakistan. In every Pakistani paper there were photo spreads of President Ayub Khan flanked on one side by the Shah of Iran and China's Chou Enlai, on the other by Indonesia's Sukarno and Turkey's President Güsel. "These are our friends," read the caption in one paper. "They support us," said another. So far, at least, the support has been...
...power-as Stalin gibed: "How many divisions does he have?"-its influence over the minds of men in the past, and in Europe, has amounted to the moral equivalent of armed force. The question now is how much moral suasion can be brought to bear on a dispute between Pakistan's Moslems and India's Hindus-peoples whose antagonisms, like so many of Asia's enmities (TIME Essay, April 9), are rooted in centuries of mistrust...