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- LETTERS, Page 6Super India
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- As an Indian, I read your article on the rise of my country
- with pride (WORLD, April 3). The justification for increased
- military strength can be found in India's history of being invaded
- and looted for hundreds of years.
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- Bharat Singh Kathiwada
- Bombay
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- Does the world need another superpower that cannot keep
- domestic peace and that exports instability?
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- William R. Woodridge
- Tokyo
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- Democratic India was compelled to increase military spending
- and strengthen its defense forces when the Reagan Administration
- supplied Pakistan with sophisticated arms, including F-16s, Harpoon
- missiles and ships. These weapons were ostensibly provided so that
- Pakistan could defend itself against the Soviets in occupied
- Afghanistan. What option had India but to arm itself?
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- Ritu Mathur
- Allahabad, India
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- Many observers assert that Sri Lanka, the most recent victim
- of Indian hegemony, will succumb before long and become yet another
- vassal state of India. Your story is an excellent warning to the
- world to challenge this redundant superpower in order to safeguard
- the sovereignty of nations that are mere pygmies in the land of
- giant superpowers.
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- Clement Perera
- Twickenham, England