I ask again: What. in the name of God and sanity is the administration doing in South Asia? If President Nixon had conscientiously set out on a deliberate program to alienate every friend of democracy in the region. and in the process. to guarantee the establishment of a permanent Soviet military presence in the Indian Ocean. he could not have done a better job. In the past year. the world has seen a repressive military dictatorship in Pakistan disregard the results of a free election. clap the winner of that election in jail. and then systematically destroy his supporters in East Pakistan in a bloody massacre that has killed upward of 200.000 people last March and that has driven 10 million refugees into neighboring India. In the 9 months that followed the beginning of the blood bath. India attempted to feed. clothe. and house this growing tide of refugees. almost singlehandedly. while Pakistan systematically continued to pursue policies designed to keep them flowing into India. When fighting between India and Pakistan at last broke out on December 3. it was Pakistan that initiated the first bombing raids on eight Indian cities. What did the United States do in those 9 months?
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