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...should be tried by Pakistani military tribunals. Since General Tikka Khan, who led the military suppression of the Bengalis, is now Pakistan's army Chief of Staff, Bangladesh is unmoved by that argument. Dacca last week denounced the raids on the Bengalis as "barbarous," and Indian Foreign Minister Swaran Singh said that Pakistan's action "can only retard the process of normalization in the subcontinent...
Last year Indira Gandhi fired Soviet-lining Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh and replaced him with the genuinely neutralist Swaran Singh (no kin). Said one Indian Foreign Office source: "Under Swaran Singh we evolved a new style toward the U.S. which did nothing to rub America the wrong way." The U.S., however, rubbed India very much the wrong way when the Pakistani civil war broke...
India is particularly incensed over the present U.S. policy, and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strongly protested to Henry Kissinger about U.S. military shipments when he visited New Delhi this month. The supply of arms by any country to Pakistan, Foreign Minister Swaran Singh charged last week, "amounts to condonation of genocide." Mrs. Gandhi is faced both with mounting pressure for military action, and an awesome cost that could set her own economy back years. India is feeding the refugees for a mere 1.10 rupees (150) per person per day, but even that amounts to more than...
...problem is that many Indians, too, are thinking of gun power. Even Swaran Singh, India's normally phlegmatic Sikh Foreign Minister, felt compelled to warn M.P.s of the ruling New Congress Party during a meeting at week's end: "Unless there is a political settlement, India will be compelled to take action...
...Indira's other ministerial switches, Swaran Singh, 59, went from the Foreign Office to Chavan's old post at Defense. His place in foreign affairs was taken by Mahomedali Currim Chagla, 66, an Oxford-educated Moslem who has served as ambassador to both the U.S. and Great Britain. Chagla's vacant spot in Education went, in turn, to Fakhruddin Ahmed, 61, whose old post as Minister for Irrigation and Power will be filled temporarily by one of his senior assistants...