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There were trial blackouts in the East Pakistan capital of Dacca too, but they are taken much more seriously there; after all, civil war between Bengali rebels and the Pakistani army is already a bloody reality. The Pakistan military command urged East Pakistanis to begin digging trenches in the compounds of all buildings "to face any eventuality...
...Indian Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram, the "ground rules" call for the two nations to tolerate "minor" provocations by one another. The danger is that either side may decide that a major violation has occurred and strike back in force. Both have sizable forces stationed near the borders-80,000 Pakistani regulars are in East Pakistan and perhaps as many as 120,000 Indians are along the 1,300-mile eastern border. Because of the earlier dispute over Kashmir, the western frontier, where each side has deployed an estimated 250,000 troops, could prove to be the more dangerous...
Each side has frequently violated the other's airspace. For weeks, Pakistani and Indian forces have been shelling each other over the eastern border. Some relief camps in India have been hit by Pakistani shelling, with resulting casualties among the nearly 10 million refugees who fled East Pakistan in the wake of the Pakistani civil war. Pakistani terrorists have also been slipping behind Indian lines to commit sabotage. For India's part, a brigade-size force, stationed near the border town of Belonia, was reported to have helped Bengali guerrillas drive the Pakistan army...
...urge restraints on India and Pakistan. Though China and the U.S. have both appeared to be lined up with Pakistan and the Soviet Union with India, the three outsiders are extremely reluctant to get involved. In Washington, Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco called in both the Indian and Pakistani ambassadors and stressed that the situation must be immediately defused. The Administration announced that it was revoking $3,600,000 worth of arms licenses to Pakistan; the licenses had been approved before Richard Nixon imposed an embargo on new arms sales to Islamabad last March...
...archetypal homme engagé, the intellectual man of action, Malraux is not yet fully ready to climb down from the barricades. Last month he announced that he was prepared to fight for Bangla Desh, the East Bengali independence movement spawned by the Pakistani civil...