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Show 84 The end of the 1950s·saw strains the U,S, &ld Pakistan over the U,S, beginning to develop between attitude toward India arising from the growing tensions between India and China, sidered as a a more was con- significant counterweight to China than Pakistan and result· began to receive John F, India The election of increasing attention, Kennedy to the Presidency and the views of his advisors, ps,riicularly John Kenneth Galbraith and Chester Bowles, greatly reinf orced the growing "India is than Pakistan" view, The new important to U. S. in-t.erests more administration did not have the anti- neutralist views of its predecessor and made a real effort to instill its view in the Congress. Pakistan saw the handwriting on the wall and began to make moves to improve relations with the Russians and the Chinese, Pakistan accepted a $30 million Soviet In 1961 credit for oil and gas exploration. As early as 1959 President Ayub put out feelers to the Chinese about demarcating their mutual border--Sinkiang and the Pakistan-held portion of Kashmir. into He did so, he states because the Chinese Tibet, the flight of the Dalai Lama and the strain between India and China meant that "unless the line the ground there up the was bound to be friction question of patrolling the border, as II 66 soon as It was was move growing demarcated on either side took not until 1962 that the two countries actually took up the negotiations which led to a border agreement. This agreement was followed n 1963 by an agree ment to establish air communications between the two countries, |
