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...Pakistan. Having hardly cooled since the recent Kashmir crisis, tensions between the old enemies went straight back to boiling point Tuesday after Indian jets shot down a Pakistani reconnaissance aircraft along a disputed coastal border. India and Pakistan both claim the plane was in their air space, and each side rushed to produce scraps of debris Wednesday to prove their point. While both newly nuclear states vowed, through gritted teeth, to avoid escalation into full-scale hostilities, both sides have placed their military forces on full alert. Pakistan admitted firing a missile at Indian aircraft Wednesday, but said the target...
...their air space. Such an action looks calculated to increase tension rather than reduce it." Although Pakistan and India have developed extensive mechanisms to prevent their constant low-level clashes spiraling into war, the latest confrontation only widens the danger. Despite Pakistan?s withdrawal from the Indian side of Kashmir last month, there has been an intensification of fighting there in recent weeks between the Indian army and Pakistan-backed Kashmiri separatists. That?s been accompanied by a spate of bomb attacks by separatists ?- which India alleges are backed by Pakistan ?- in the Indian state of Assam. The latest confrontation...
...that we discovered how close we?d come to being hit. When I got back to the office, I learned that our stringer in Karachi had been taken to the area on a similar trip by the Pakistani military. So there was a reporter from TIME on the Pakistani side when we were fired on. As always, we?re covering both sides...
India and Pakistan don?t need much excuse to start fighting, so Tuesday?s shooting down of a Pakistani military plane will be a real test of the two countries? restraint. Just weeks after Pakistan ? under intense international pressure ? withdrew its forces from the Indian side of Kashmir, Indian combat planes shot down a Pakistani coastal patrol plane killing all 16 people on board, including five naval officers. India said the plane was downed while flying over its airspace; Pakistan insisted the plane was on the Pakistani side of the border and said the location of the wreckage would prove...
...Senator who has already told Gore he will support him. According to Biden, since Gore launched his campaign, some Senators have sensed that the V.P.'s team would strike against anyone sounding too many pro-Bradley notes. "Ninety-five percent of my colleagues here on the Democratic side believe that Bill Clinton has consciously turned over the reins of political power--the power of appointment, the power of pardon, the power relating to those things that affect partisan politics--to Al Gore," Biden says. "Whether that's true or not, and it appears to be, is not really the point...