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THE QNEONTA STAR, Oneonta, Nov. 26,1971 India denies Pakistani invasion claims NEW DELHI (AP) Radio Pakistan claimed Thursday the Pakistani army has turned liack an Indian offensive in East Pakistan, killing more than 800 invaders. India categorically denies its troops are lighting there. The Pakistani army has launched a major counteroffensive, the official radio reported, sending the "miscreants and their agents" into retreat. "Miscreants" is used by the Pakistanis to describe Indian soldiers, while "agents" is an euphemism for the Mukti Ba- hini, the East Pakistanis fighting for independence.

Fighting has raged for the past four days throughout East Pakistan, the radio report asserted as the Indians continue to aggravate the situation with armor and artillery attacks. The Indians declare the fighting is between the people of East Pakistan and the military rulers of West Pakistan. Pakistan radio claimed that 330 Indian soldiers were kulled while retreating, in addition to 500 fatalities earlier in the week. No major action between Indian and Pakistani troops was reported by the Indian government in its daily communique. The Indian government radio, however, reported that the Mukti Bahini guerrillas were advancing steadily and making major gains in the western sec- tor of East Pakistan.

According to the Indian radio, the guerrillas were cutting rail communications and other supply routes in the area, including vital links with the city of Jessore, a major supply source for the Pakistani army. An Indian news agency reported that heavy fighting has raged between the Mukti Ba- hini and the Pakistani Army for three days in the area of Jessore, 45 miles northeast of Calcutta. In the fighting, United News of India reported, the Pakistanis suffered more than 100 killed. No casualty figures were given for the guerrillas. United News of India reported Prime Minister Indira Gan- dhi had received a personal letter from President Agha Mb- hammed Yahya Kyan of Pakistan but the government took a dim view of the communication.

The Foreign Miniszry declined to confirm or deny the report. However, a statement by Yahya in Rawalpindi, broadcast and monitored in New Del- hi, was not encouraging. Speaking at the opening of a new heavy machinery plant at Tax- ila near Rawalpindi Yahya declared: "We wish to avoid a conflagration in the subcontinent, but the situation created by Indian aggression is leading the two countries to the point of no return." The weafherman played havoc with the Thanksgiving festivities in New England, too. Peter Slevin, left, and Paula Lenzi of Plymouth, Mass, woefully gather up food from outdoor setting after rains washed away thp 350th Thanksgiving celebration in Plymouth. (AP wirenJioto) Storm's impact felt in state 7 ar's outbreak means famine (Continued from Page 1) The largest snowfall appeared to be concentrated" in the Albany area.

At 1 p.m. the weather bureau at Albany County Airport reported that 18y 2 inches had fallen since the storm began at 8:45 p.m. In the Schoharie County community of Cobleskill, 25 miles to the west, 21 inches covered the ground. Although roadways throughout Eastern New York were strewn with stranded automobiles, traffic tie ups and minor accidents, the most difficult traveling seemed to be in Southeastern York; near Newburgh-, where sections -of- Interstate 84 were closed because of heavy snow. and increasing winds.

The New York State Thruway remained open throughout the brunt of the storm, but Thruway police warned that driving was hazardous on the stretch from New York City to Syracuse because of blowing snow and poor visability. The section of the superhighway from Syracuse to the Pennsylvania state line was clear. Parts of Route 17 in. the southern Catskil! Mountain area were impassable because of stalled cars. In Tompkins, Tioga and Cortland counties, all main roads were open and largely slush- covered.

Among other points in the eastern part of the state reporting heavy snowfall by midday, Glens Falls had 14 inches, Utica 8 inches, Binghamton 8, Poughkeepsie 6 and Rome Although the ocean borne storm was centered just south of York City Thursday morning, the city escaped the heavy snow. A light snowfall changed to rain early Thursday in the metropolitan area. The storm also skirted western and most of central New York, traditional snow belt areas that normally are i hardest by storms coming off the Great Lakes. Only a lew inches were reported to have fallen in the Adirondack Mountain region, the weather bureau said the storm was affecting that area more as it moved eastward into New England. Pittsburgh, N.

and Burlington, reported inches by noon. The weather service said the greatest previous November storm dumped 14 inches on the Albany area. And the worst previous Thanksgiving storm left Albany under a five-inch layer of snow. By LEWIS GULICK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) What once loomed as possible widespread famine in East Pakistan has been averted--at least for the time being--thanks to a good crop and emergency international aid. In reporting this Thursday, U.S.

AID officials cautioned a an outbreak of war between India and Pakistan could quickly worsen East Pakistan's food picture again. But for the present at least, they said, the grain flow to East Pakistan's 70 million people appears to be enough to sustain them at a subsistence level approaching what they Meany hospitalized WASHINGTON (AP) -Veteran labor leader George Meany was admitted to a hospital early Thursday less than a day after his return from an AFL-CIO convention that was marked by charges and countercharges of rudeness to President Nixon. A preliminary diagnosis in. dicated "a possible" spasm in the coronary arteries," his physician, Dr. Marvin Fuchs said.

Meany, 77-year-old president of the AFL-CIO, has been "under considerable stress," Fuchs said. Dr. Fuchs said Meany suffered severe chest pains, but they had disappeared by the time Meany was taken from his home to the emergency coronary unit of the George Washington University Hospital about 5 a.m. EST. It's The Star's FIRST ANNUAL NTER SPORTS EDITION! This special supplement of The Star's Classified Advertising Dept.

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The devastating November 1970 cyclone triggered a large- scale international relief effort. Then trouble struck again last March with East Pakistan's political rebellion. The U.S. officials said the outside relief shipments, mostly U.S.-financed, have helped to bolster the per person grain consumption in East Pakistan to an average of 14 ounces a day. Without it, they said, the average would be a starvation diet of 11.7 ounces a day.

They are hoping to raise the rate further toward 15.4 ounces a day, the East Pakistanis' average before the cyclone. They said their greatest good news is a prediction of a 5.5 million ton harvest for East Pakistan's rice crop next month, the largest of the three annual rice crops there. East Pakistan's total rice output for the coming year is now estimated at around 9.4 million tons, they said, while annual consumption is about 11 million tons. Grain ships are carrying into East. Pakistan's seaports as much or more than the 140,000 tons a month that can now be cleared put of these ports for inland distribution, the officials' said.

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