Articles by Ramesh Jaura

lines is likely to win the bipartisan support which is needed to break the present deadlock.
In any case, unless there is a concerted effort on the part of the politicians, civil servants, religious and community leaders of all sides to reach a consensus, WEST GERMANY the killings and maimings, presently averaging 11 a week, will continue unabated, causing anger and despair, destroying the social fabric, ruining the economy, and poisoning relations between the young of both sides, while the tiny province is patrolled by 12,000 British troops.

EGS. Recovery is spread over several years and falls due from the second year after work is completed. What costs have actually been recovered we do not as yet know as the Revenue Department has not been able to issue any figures. What we do know is that by the end of March 1976 for instance some 900 canals and tanks for minor and major irrigation works had been completed and over 2,000 soil conser- vation works as well. By March 1977 the figures for completed works had risen to 1,500 canals, tanks, etc, and over 5,000 soil conservation works. Thus recoveries of costs (except for work carried out in dry farming lands where soil conservation dues are usually waived) should be good but given our general experience with collection of land revenue, etc, it is certainto be minimal, if at all.

Sixth Western Economic Summit Ramesh Jaura THE sixth non-communist economic summit on June 22 and 23 in the lagoon city of Venice differed from its predecessors at Rambouillet (1975), Puerto Rico (1976), London (1977), Bonn (1978) and Tokyo (1979) particularly in view of the political backdrop which has undergone a radical change in the wake of developments in Afghanistan, The seven leading countries of the West represented at Venice

West Europe and Afghanistan Ramesh Jaura THE significant difference, in Western view, between the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia and Kremlin's invasion of Afghanistan is that while the former was in a neighbouring Warsaw Pact member-state, the latter is in a neighbouring non-aligned developing country, The West is thus willing to openly admit that, despite loud protests nearly a decade ago, for all practical purposes, it does not earnestly challenge the right of a superpower to intervene in a state falling under its tacitly agreed sphere of influence. This is apparently a realistic view which has contributed towards hindering localised wars from spreading out into a world-wide conflagration, in the last thirty-five years. However, from the point of view of realpolitik, the Russian action in Afghanistan should not surprise anyone. The temptation to fill the vacuum created Iiy the erosion of US power was irresistible.

Aftermath of 'Brezhnev Bombshell' Ramesh Jaura THE thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the German Democratic Republic was certainly not expected to go past with a whimper. Nor was it expected to produce the bang of a bombshell. But this is precisely what happened. President Leonid Brezhnev indeed dropped a bombshell by proposing a unilateral reduction of upto 20,000 Soviet troops and tanks in GDR.