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...reported TIME Correspondent William Stewart from New Delhi, there was no question that India and its imperious Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, were struggling through a political crisis that would profoundly affect the country's future. The state of emergency, proclaimed on June 26 at Mrs. Gandhi's behest, had suspended political freedoms and given her near dictatorial powers. Banned were 26 minor political factions representing the most extreme leftist and rightist movements. More than 1,000 political dissidents-of all ideological shadings-already have been jailed, uninformed of the charges against them and with no hope...
...this month, the CBO staff will produce budget estimates and an economic forecast for 1976. In the fall, using tallies and economic models prepared at Rivlin's behest by Chase Econometrics, Data Resources Inc. and the Wharton School, Congress will add up what it has actually appropriated in voting on separate bills and act to bring the total under the agreed-upon deficit ceiling...
...radical leftist parties, the tiny Alliance of Workers and Farmers and the student-dominated Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), were banned. Both were accused of staging violent street demonstrations and disrupting rival political rallies, but some observers thought that they were being eliminated at the behest of Portugal's Moscow-oriented Communists. "The Communist game is to play Mr. Clean," said one foreign diplomat. "The Maoists would only have been in the way, fueling fears both here and abroad that dangerous leftist loonies were on the loose...
...rope, erected by the few against the many, the self-styled "meritocrats" against the opponents of a racist meritocracy. It is a privilege which must be resolutely fought and just as resolutely rejected if offered. To do otherwise is to participate in the subjugation of the many at the behest...
...bondage to the Trades Union Congress." At a televised press conference, Shirley Williams, Minister of Consumer Affairs in the outgoing government, said that she would quit politics if Britain should withdraw from the Common Market in accordance with a referendum that Wilson has promised to hold at the behest of his party's left wing and their union supporters...