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Frustrated Opposition. Hindi, a derivative of ancient Sanskrit, is the language of 190 million Indians in the north, who represent 40% of the nation's population; it is also the tongue of leaders of the Congress Party, headed by Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. Under the new law, official business now must be carried out in Hindi, and civil servants, India's largest urban labor force, are granted higher seniority status for learning it. But in southern India, where 111 million people speak four different, Dravidian languages - Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam - there is frustrated opposition...
...Million Cheer. Thus the pilgrimage grew grand. On hand at Bombay's Santa Cruz airport to meet the Pope were India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, stately, goateed Moslem Vice President Zakir Hussain (wearing white Congress caps that paired with Paul's white skullcap), and the country's leading industrialist, J.R.D. Tata...
Candidate Pandit won easily, 110,-548 to 52,528. It is expected she will soon join her niece and Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri...
Portuguese Anger. Not everyone is as pleased by the congress as are India's 6,200,000 Roman Catholics. Although President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri will greet the Pope in Bombay, many Indian officials are miffed that Paul refused to visit New Delhi. The papal trip also cuts no ice with Portugal, which has never forgiven India for seizing its old colony of Goa in 1961. In honor of the Bom bay congress, Goa is exposing for 44 days of veneration its most famous relic, the mummified body of the 16th century Jesuit Missionary...
...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Both Nationalist China's and Red China's positions in the world are assessed by India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, Nationalist China's President and Madame Chiang Kaishek, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other leaders...