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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
-