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...other correspondents contributing to the cover story are also veteran observers of Asian fighting. James Shepherd, an Indian national, joined TIME'S New Delhi bureau in 1958. His assignments have included India's border clashes with China and the Indo-Pakistani war waged over Kashmir. Recently Shepherd toured the refugee camps that line the Indo-East Pakistani border. David Greenway, whose most recent beat was the United Nations, formerly served in the Saigon and Bangkok bureaus. Last week he visited the insurgent forces. "The countryside," he says, "looks quite like Viet Nam, and with all the airpower, armor...
...India's almost 600 million people. By last week, however, it was clear that the country's economy, never robust, was bogging down for reasons that are not of Mrs. Gandhi's making. More than 6,000,000 refugees have fled to India since the Pakistani government, based in West Pakistan, began a savage campaign of repression and terror in East Pakistan last March. The cost of feeding and sheltering the refugees-and caring for thousands of cholera victims-will total at least $400 million in the first six months...
...refugees from predominantly Moslem East Pakistan are Hindus seeking sanctuary in West Bengal and other eastern Indian states, where their co-religionists are in the vast majority. What particularly worries India is that their chances of ever returning home are diminishing. Last week New Delhi said that the Pakistanis were destroying the title deeds of property owned by Hindus in East Pakistan. So «u the Indians may have to accept, on a permanent basis, a Pakistani refugee population that could eventually reach 10 million...
...Gandhi has rejected such talk, but it is growing in volume, even among Members of Parliament. " to persuade other countries to provide emergency aid and put pressure on the Pakistani government to ease its repression in East Pakistan, the Prime Minister has sent several of her colleagues abroad to explain India's predicament-so far with little success...
...Power. A tough young East Pakistani who calls himself a Naxalite told TIME Correspondent James Shepherd: "For the moment, the common enemy [of both the Awami League and the East Bengali Naxalites] is the Pakistan army. The arms that India gives the Awami League will find their way to the Naxalites, and eventually we will fight not only the army but also the bourgeoisie and the feudal elements." Contemptuous of democratic processes, the Naxalite said scornfully: "Now the Awami League cadres are seeing the truth of the saying that political power grows out of the barrel...