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...positive statement," said the ambassador of one radical African state. "A tour de force," commented an Asian diplomat. The tone of the session mellowed enough for Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milos Minic to declare that "points of contact" were emerging between rich and poor. India's Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan talked soothingly of confronting problems rather than confronting each other. A similar mood of cooperation was evident in Washington at the joint annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...voted to relinquish their sovereignty by the suspiciously top-heavy margin of 59,637 to 1,496. Although there was little debate before the act of union was rushed through India's Parliament last week, one opponent of the bill did charge India's Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan with behaving like "a very apt pupil of the British...
...Gandhi spoke out against "Pakistan's new belligerence," and at week's end visiting Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko joined with New Delhi in a communique ex pressing "grave anxiety at the actions taken by certain quarters to step up the arms race." Indian Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan, who was scheduled to pre side with Kissinger over the first meeting of an Indo-U.S. Joint Commission that had been set up to improve ties, canceled...
...than $2.76 a month. In south and east India, 15% of the hospital beds are filled by malnutrition cases, and some economists worry that Indian children will be so stunted by their poor diet that they will grow up to be a "nation of mediocrities." As Finance Minister Y.B. Chavan notes: "Eighty percent of the downtrodden have remained virtually untouched by the development process and it would be perilous to ignore them...
...years. With 518 elective seats at stake in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, her New Congress Party was assured of 339 and stood a chance of winning enough for a two-thirds majority when all the ballots were counted. Said Indira's Finance Minister Y.B. Chavan: "The mandate is very clear for the onward march of the people to socialism...