Word: subcontinentals
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Not since gaining independence in 1947 has India faced a more mighty challenge: the threat of a war with Pakistan that could engulf the entire subcontinent. Yet as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made her way across Europe on a six-nation tour that will bring her to Washington this week...
IN New Delhi last week, one member of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Cabinet was heard to remark: "War is inevitable." In Islamabad, President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan spent the better part of a 40-minute television speech railing against the Indians, whom he accused of "whipping up a...
Senator Edward Kennedy charges that the U.S. is sending another sort of aid to the subcontinent as well. In spite of a State Department freeze on new military aid shipments to Pakistan, says Kennedy, the Pentagon has signed new defense contracts totaling nearly $10 million with the Pakistan government within...
The most interesting news to emerge last week, however, involved the intervention of a superpower in the bloodiest and potentially the most dangerous of the world's atavistic conflicts. Moscow hailed its 20-year treaty of non-aggression and mutual cooperation with New Delhi as a move designed to...
The Soviet-Indian pact seems to have been inspired by Leonid Brezhnev's call at the World Communist Party Conference in Moscow in 1969 for a "system of collective security in Asia," a statement reflecting the Russians' growing concern over what they called Chinese "imperialism." Actually, Moscow'...