Word: basu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...follow no principle of public morality." Today, none of those goals has been fulfilled, and Gandhi seems to have lost his golden electioneering touch. He made four campaign swings in March through West Bengal (pop. 60 million). Referring to the Communist government of West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, 72, Gandhi repeatedly exhorted the crowds to "smash the red fort of Marxism...
...regarded as political hacks, while the Marxist candidates could point to ten years of relatively good government under their rule. The Communists have distributed tracts of farmland to landless peasants and kept government corruption in check. The party, which broke with Moscow in 1964, is hardly doctrinaire. Chief Minister Basu, for example, is coaxing multinational companies to invest in West Bengal...
...Maidan Park, only half a mile of track was scheduled to become operational this summer. Then a June storm flooded the whole system and postponed its opening to the public. "When the thing is completed, it will not solve anything," says Calcutta's Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, who wants to build an auxiliary railway system to carry people from the subway to their work. Says he: "Without such a railway, there will be pandemonium...
...Basu, a democratically elected Marxist, remains remarkably optimistic. He has started building a modern port at Haldia, 45 miles south of Calcutta, which will also include an oil refinery and fertilizer factory. He hopes to build a ring of 17 small satellite cities outside Calcutta, each with self-supporting industry. But perhaps his greatest ground for optimism is that central Calcutta has finally stopped growing...