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August 25, 2009 - Goanet's 15th Anniversary
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Yes Eric, there was a lot of muscle & money inputs by the Kenedy administration
to bolster India, politically, during Mao's menace & economically, during the
food &
other essential commodities' critical doldrums.
But on a more tender note, I know, that Ted had a vast soft corner for Goa: he
had
heard, & learnt, about Goa from his b-in-l, Sargeant Shriver, his beloved
sister, Eunice's
husband. Eunice preceeded him to eternity a couple of weeks.
Shriver, was appointed by JFK, to head the famously created American Peace
Corps: Of
their hordes that descended upon India, most fetching gals & sturdy youths, Goa
became
the pricipal R&R base...and that base, virtually, the Mario miranda mansion in
Loutulim.
I, to my great joy, interacted with them joyfully & memorably...
Shriver had told Ted about the great Goan hospitality, etc.
Thus, after Bobby's assasination, Ted became the de facto pater familias of the
vast Kenedy
brood, & their tortuous life styles.
A particular ordeal for Ted was his nephew, Michael(?) who later died aboard a
commercial
aircraft: His addiction to drugs had become a traumatic issue for the family.
Ted, then, remembered of Shriver's glowing reports about Goa, and coffered with
Mario to
arrange a drying up long vaccation for the nephew in Loutulim, to which Mario
aceded.
The young blighter perished before the plan could be executed.
This is just a footnote in the imense Kenedy saga that, I felt, merited
disclosure...
Alfred de Tavares.
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:29:50 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Goanet] The Kennedys, and India.
> We once were Soviet fellow-travellers, our 'tryst with destiny' in the
> firm grip of the Congress party's lunatic Marxist fringe : all acolytes of
> British Communist member of parliament, Cambridge based lawyer,Saklatwalla.
> They incuded Javahar, Menon, Feroze Gandhi, Joaqqim Alva, and Malviya. We
> were at the forefront of the world's largest Commie front organization, the
> Nonaligned Movement, a group Lee Kuan Yew had called a Russian brothel. As
> their nations floundered, the cliques toasted PM Khruschav in their tattered
> cities : Havana, Cairo, Belgrade, Jakarta, and our country. The West was
> shocked when we cynically watched the 'rape of Hungary' in cold silence.
> Yet, all was forgiven when China invaded and Nehru dialled WASHINGTON,
> where a government of three Kennedy brothers lost little time in diapatching
> the Seventh Fleet to Calcutta. Fifty carrier bombers landed at Bagdogra,
> along with scores of C-140 freight flights from Thai SEATO bases. It was
> they who kept Mao out of our oilfields, not Menon's 1910 Enfields. An added
> bonus : their boys overran the bar at Firpos, on Park St., and our gals
> wafted away to Paradise.
> John launched the USAID push into India that threw billions into an economy
> that was bled by Soviet-style, State-sponsored plunder ; A brave editor,
> Karaka, wrote 'they skimmed the cream even as they wallowed in our ashes.'
> Later, Lyndon Johnson would send us fifty million tons of wheat on three
> hundred Liberty Ships, to tide us over the 1965 famine.
> The obituary offered by a local would be political leader was nothing short
> of disgusting. Heres hoping he garners more than a hundred votes in his next
> serial attempt at a seat in the Assembly. eric.
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