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...that General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, the border commander, was beginning to use to good advantage the U.S. and British automatic weapons and heavy mortars being flown in around the clock. At Kaul's headquarters in Tezpur, India's venerable President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 74, visited hospitalized Gurkha, Sikh and Jat soldiers, many of whom had wandered famished and freezing through the mountains for 17 days after the big Chinese breakthrough last month. "Morale is high," Radhakrishnan told newsmen. "All the troops say, 'Give us the tools and we will regain our lost territory.'" He blamed last...
Best chances for the opposition is in the state assemblies (see map). In Rajasthan, the Swatantra and Jana Sangh could topple the Congress leadership, and in West Bengal a leftist front could overthrow Congress. In the Punjab a Sikh separate language party threatens Congress for control of the Assembly. In Mysore, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Congress may lose some seats. In Parliament its victory is beyond question, though the opposition parties may win as many as 200 of the 494 seats...
...aggressiveness. India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went, as he piously put it, "contrary to my grain.'' On Nehru's orders, Indian forces invaded the tiny, 451-year-old Portuguese colony of Goa on India's west coast. In a three-pronged attack, crack Sikh and Dogra troops of the Indian army's 17th Division, abetted by gunfire and air force jets, overran Goa and the Portuguese enclaves of Diu and Damao in a naked act of aggression that forever tarnished Nehru's self-burnished image as an apostle of peace...
...harbor, the little frigate exchanged fire with an Indian cruiser and two destroyers for 45 minutes. Her captain badly wounded, the crippled ship was finally beached. Less than two days after Indian troops crossed the frontier, the Portuguese surrendered. The night after the surrender in Pangim, a happy Sikh infantryman lay in a drunken sleep outside the governor general's palace, two champagne bottles at his side. Both sides killed more bottles than they did men. Best estimates of casualties: 40 killed and wounded for both Portuguese and Indians...
...string cot in the courtyard of the Golden Temple of Amritsar lay Master Tara Singh, 76, political leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs. Masterji, as he is called by his followers in the Punjab, was entering the second month of a fast he had sworn to keep unto death, or until the Indian government grants his demand for a Punjabi Suba-a separate, Sikh-dominated state. Few fasts since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's Empire-baiting hunger strikes had caused such a stir in India...