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...mysteries, however, is how Mrs. Gandhi, the compleat politician, so misjudged the national mood when she called the elections. She is known to have been worried last fall about the sterilization backlash and other bureaucratic tyrannies in North India. But in November Sanjay made a whirlwind tour of Uttar Pradesh and was greeted by the usual crowds-supplied, of course, by the local authorities. Similarly, when Sanjay and his elder brother Rajiv visited a community of resettled slumdwellers, they were given a tumultuous welcome-as ordered by party officials. Mrs. Gandhi, deprived of a free press and served...
...afford to hide in the soap-bubble sanctuary of Harvard tenure and launch attacks against those who are acting for change. What have you done for Afro-American students in your years here, Prof. Kilson? How are you tackling the "massive problems," except by serving as a voice of backlash and reaction attacking progressive Afro-American students...
...seem a lot less trifling last October, when lawyers refused to certify some local bond issues because title to land in the localities involved was clouded by the Indian suit. The bonds are selling again, but some hostility persists in what some Down Easters describe as a "whiteneck" backlash. Says Maine's popular Republican Congressman William Cohen, who is anxious to run soon for either Senator or Governor: "It's not politically feasible to be liberal on this issue. The notion that 3,000 people can claim even 5 million acres is excessive...
Last Vestige. Although no local blacks have applied for membership since the exclusionary rule was dropped and none are expected to, there was little doubt that Edwards was a victim of racial backlash. Segregated church membership is one of the last vestiges of organized racial separation in the South and is fiercely defended by many who have brought themselves to accept integration in other areas. Edwards blamed a small group of bigots, including four "openly defiant, outright racist" church deacons, for his censure...
Fearful of a rightist backlash and possible violence on referendum day. Suárez canceled a last-minute campaign trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the terrorists. Suárez's Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa said that the government could not accept "blackmail and coercion" and had tried every channel of "worthy and humanitarian" solution to the kidnaping. If Oriol is killed. Villa vowed, his kidnapers will be hunted down...