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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4446)	6/8/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) of 12475

Kissinger in Bombay- on Kashmir,the 7th fleet in 71 etc. ,,Asked why he got President Richard Nixon to send the US Seventh Fleet into the Bay of Bengal during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, Kissinger said, "I hope you will appreciate that I made a terrible mistake." But he clarified his position by stating that in those days America had joined hands with China and Pakistan was party to the alliance. "We agreed that Bangladesh must be free, but India's then prime minister Indira Gandhi was a strong and tough leader. And she did not want a state created by American intervention to be India's neighbour," he said. According to him, the Americans thought that having liberated Bangladesh, the Indian forces would move into West Pakistan as well. Mrs Gandhi refused to give any assurance against such a move. "That is why we moved in the Seventh Fleet. It was a move during the Cold War."... rediff.com

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