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...late, however, things have begun to change. In his last months as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri took a few steps toward a freer economy. The trend has built up steam under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
None dared. Her words were more than mere defiance of party snipers. Most political experts agreed that her fiery speech was the clearest indication yet that she intends to continue as Prime Minister after next February's general election. When she was selected last January to succeed Lai Bahadur Shastri, some members of the Congress Party supported her on the theory that she would be the best national figure to lead the party into the elections. After that, they reckoned, she could be shelved in favor of another candidate...
Nehru's successor, the late Lal Bahadur Shastri, moved toward changing that policy. India's food crisis, he decided, was just too terrible to let socialist doctrine stand in the way of solution. At his recommendation, an agricultural program was adopted last December that, among other things, allows foreign firms to build and operate their own fertilizer plants-and set their own prices. After Shastri died, the new Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing...
...taken quite a while to get India's Prime Minister to the U.S. The invitation had been extended originally to Lai Bahadur Shastri in January 1965, was put off somewhat tactlessly by Lyndon Johnson three months later, and re-extended in October. When Shastri died before he could make the trip, the invitation went out anew to his successor, Indira Gandhi...
...relatively simple task for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. Calming them down has turned out to be a good deal harder. After all, Ayub's controlled press had claimed one magnificent victory after another in Kashmir. When Ayub and India's late Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri agreed in Tashkent last month to observe the original border and withdraw their troops from it, Pakistan's vitriolic Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto nearly resigned in disgust, and students demonstrated in a dozen towns. Throughout Pakistan, the feeling grew that Ayub had sold...