Build-up deplored
NZPA New York A Soviet delegate has accused the United States in the United Nations of greatly increasing its naval forces in the Indian Ocean and planning to create a new military bloc system in that region. The delegate, Leo Mendelevich, told the United Nations special committee on the Indian Ocean that a large-scale arms race would develop there unless the situation was reversed, because the Soviet Union could not ignore a threat to its security He endorsed the committee’s object of making the Indian Ocean a zone of peace- but he questioned whether it was realistic under present circumstances. Mr Mendelevich did not mention the January _ 23 address in which President Jimmy Carter said a Soviet effort to dominate Afghanistan had put Soviet troops close to most of the world’s oil shipping in the Straits of Hormuz
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