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...Indian Parliament, even winning the support of some of the opposition right-wing parties. A.B. Vajpayee, leader of the archconservative Jana Sangh, spoke for most when he declared that the treaty had found a friend for India at a critical juncture. In the five months since the Pakistani civil war broke out, India's economy has been seriously set back by an influx of 8,000,000 East Pakistani refugees. The cost of supporting them has already mounted to more than $300 million, of which other nations, led by the U.S., have contributed only $125 million. Two weeks...
...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...
...timing of the bombing tends to confirm that Mujib's trial will further stiffen Bengali resistance to the occupying West Pakistani army. If there are any chances of a political settlement -and they seem almost nonexistent-imposition of the death penalty could dash them...
...overwhelming 167 of 169 seats in the East. That was enough to guarantee Mujib a majority in the 313-seat national assembly, and ensured that he would have become Prime Minister of Pakistan. It was also enough to alarm President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and the West Pakistani establishment, which has run the geographically divided country since its partition from India...
Yahya and Co. feared that Mujib's ascendancy would mean far greater autonomy for the long-exploited East Pakistanis, and the Pakistani army ruthlessly moved to crush the Bengali movement...