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...grant, given by the Research Applied to National Needs program (RANN) of the NSF, became effective February 1 and will continue through Feb. 1, 1975. This brigs the foundation's total funding for the project to over...
...first, from October 1947 to Jan. 1, 1949, took place in Kashmir and resulted in the almost equal division of the disputed state. The second was the Rann of Kutch affair on India's southwestern border from April to June 1965. The third, in the fall of 1965, occurred in Kashmir and lasted 22 days...
...began when Ceylon, apparently emboldened by last month's decision of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cede 350 sq. mi. of the worthless Rann of Kutch to Pakistan, suddenly announced that it, and not India, controlled the uninhabited island. The Ceylonese, who are predominantly Buddhist, based their claim largely on the fact that St. Anthony's church on Kachcha Tivu fell within the diocese of the Roman Catholic bishop of the northern Ceylonese city of Jaffna...
...disputed area is a 3,500-sq.-mi. stretch of the Rann of Kutch, a desolate stretch of salt flat and sand dunes that is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea between the two countries and inhabited chiefly by flamingos and wild asses. Pakistan and India fought a number of sharp engagements in the Rann in early 1965, but agreed to submit the conflict to binding international arbitration before a larger border war broke out a few months later over Kashmir. The tribunal turned down Pakistan's bid for the area...
...Mother India-to the hated Pakistanis. The opposition even introduced a no-confidence motion, which will probably come to a vote this week. Since Indira commands a comfortable majority in Parliament, she is unlikely to be beaten, but the nationalist Jana Sangh Party has already vowed to make the Rann a rallying cry in its growing campaign to win the masses away from the Congress Party. While most of India's huge problems go begging, the country's politicians retain an unfortunate, though perhaps understandable, passion for making an issue out of nothing...