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Kicking Out Communists. Whatever Indira's earlier predilections toward Communism may have been, her actions are apt to be tempered by recent experience. In the mid-1950s, Indira often returned from trips behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtain, bubbling about the beauties of Communism, but she turned out to be a tough, uncompromising anti-Communist when she ran up against Red subversion in India. A case in point was the poverty-stricken state of Kerala in India's arid southwest. The Communists had won elections for state officers and had been in power for 27 months when Indira popped...
...always a cure, and is sometimes a curse for India's problems. By inclination, Indira prefers public ownership of plants, but her chief economic adviser, Asoka Mehta, is fully aware that government-owned factories have proved to be far less efficient than private enterprise in India. Indira is apt to be very wary of foreign investment in India, but Food Minister Subramaniam realizes India's desperate need for development capital. Chaven is known to favor a foreign policy that will enable India to receive aid from both the U.S. and Russia...
...surplus U.S. wheat and other foodstuffs be thrown into the deal along with the new jets. To help pay for the costly planes, the Lebanese proposed to raise cash by selling off the wheat and foodstuffs. If that sounded roundabout, it was-but it is the way business is apt to be done with the Middle East...
...glossy magazines have run photo-features on Victim, so anyone who misses it is bound to feel as left out as he would having missed Cleopatra. Ironically, the reason the film gets so much coverage helps explain its mediocrity: it does abstract colorfully into journalism; it's apt to sound good on paper, which must be why it got produced...
...have gone from shoe leather to traffic jams overnight," says a conservative Barcelona banker, and the analogy is apt. Ten years ago, Spain produced no automobiles, and foreign cars were so expensive (the import duty