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Indian spokesmen reported yesterday that thousands of East Pakistani troops were retreating in front of the Indian army's advance which came within 25 miles of Dacca. East Pakistan's capital. India claims to have wiped out the last of East Pakistan's air force during...
...dinner was cancelled, according to Catherine Galbraith, the professor's wife, because "Kissinger was tied up with whatever's going on." An aide to Kissinger at the White house confirmed this, saying. "This Pakistani-India dispute's got everybody so busy around here." Galbraith himself was out of town and unavailable for comment...
...meantime, however, several hard-lining West Pakistani generals got wind of the proposal and informed Yahya that they were opposed to any sort of negotiations with Mujib. They argued that Pakistan's unity depended upon maintaining the current policy?in effect to outlast the guerrillas. The generals, moreover, also tried to convince Yahya that Mujib should be executed after his treason trial is completed. Yahya has apparently not yet made up his mind about the Bengali leader, but observers have grown markedly more pessimistic about his fate. "Mujib may well never get back to Bengal alive," says one Western diplomat...
...assurance that should Pakistan be subjected to foreign aggression, the Chinese government and people will, as always, resolutely support the Pakistan government and people." Then it was China's turn. Peking's own special emissary, Li Shui-ching of the First Ministry of Machine Building, spoke glowingly of Chinese-Pakistani friendship, but he carefully avoided any mention of the tension with India or of specific aid from Peking. Then, in a surprising and symbolic gesture, he released a boxful of doves...
...separate Islamic nation, Pakistan. Among the five provinces that opted to join the new nation was East Bengal, whose Moslem majority had no desire to live under a Hindu-controlled government in New Delhi. Despite the ravaging that East Bengal has taken at the hands of the West Pakistani troops, the attitude persists. Says an Indian official: "If an Indian army marched into East Pakistan and drove the West Pakistanis out, it would for ten days be the Indian army of liberation and on the eleventh day become the Hindu army of occupation...