Word: yahya
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...Correspondent Kraar cabled from Rawalpindi, "but I found this town completely quiet. It made me feel like that correspondent in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, who cabled his home office, ADEN UN-WARWISE, while a competitor reported, ADEN WARWISE. The main event that evening was a dinner that President Yahya Khan was giving for the Chinese Communist First Minister of Machine Building...
...Shui-ching, who was here to dedicate a factory. President Yahya talked informally with reporters and expressed some unusually tough warnings to India. But the only evidence of war that night was the blackout which was quite unnecessary...
...went before Parliament in New Delhi and acknowledged that Indian troops had entered East Pakistan "to repulse a Pakistani attack" near the border. She also corroborated the report that India had shot down three Pakistani Sabre jets. Mrs. Gandhi added that she would not emulate Pakistani President Agha Mohammed Yahya...
...between West and East Pakistan would be resolved. "Solutions have been found even to seemingly insoluble problems," she said. She added that India would take no independent action until Western leaders have had a chance to defuse the crisis. The hope: that they would pressure Pakistan President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan's military regime into finding a political solution acceptable to the East Pakistanis...
...between Washington and New Delhi were at their lowest point since India won independence in 1947, largely as a result of the Administration's continued arms shipments to Pakistan. New Delhi hoped to persuade Washington to withdraw its economic and military support from Pakistan, whose President, Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, is carrying on a policy of attrition against East Pakistan. Washington, for its part, hoped to dissuade New Delhi from striking out against Pakistan...