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...slow-moving Syndicate cabal that ruled the party, Indira emerged triumphant from the party split that virtually stripped her foes of power. The split also left her with a minority government. Unable to ram controversial legislation through Parliament, foiled by the supreme court when she sought to abolish the maharajahs' privy purses, she decided to dissolve Parliament and try to win a greater majority. If she winds up with a two-thirds majority, she will be able not only to enact her program but also to amend the constitution...
...Gandhi is not about to abolish the right to private property, but she may very well have to put limits on it. "We want the private sector to be more spread out," she has said. "We don't want it confined to a few families." Almost all Indian business and industrial houses today are family-run-which encourages them to become monopolies and inbred cartels but deprives them of truly professional management at the top level. Indira realizes, however, that any serious tampering with property rights could antagonize the moderates and the moneymen who are the source...
...convincing. Their freaks are as contemptible as their pigs. And when Harkness, driving stoned, nearly wrecks his car, one wonders which side this book's on. Is it all a put-on? Most reviewers, like the one in the New York Times, thought the book was a plea to abolish anti-marijuana laws. But Peter Harkness, like the narrator of "They Grind Exceeding Small," antagonizes more than he convinces. The message of the book is not clear. What is clear is that every letter in Dealing is superimposed on a dollar sign. Like Crichton's other two efforts, this book...
Although the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, F. Edward Hebert (D-La.) has insisted that the President already has the power to abolish undergraduate deferments, there has been considerable Administration pressure for a special congressional provision specifically giving the President such power...
...perhaps, gaining adherents each year. While admitting that it has some truth in it, we are loath to believe that the exercises at the tree have so far degenerated into boyish rowdyism that the only course whereby the Seniors can show themselves still to be gentlemen is to abolish the whole performance. Cannot the much that is good be separated from the evil, and preserved to give variety to the diversions of Class...