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...Cow Belt. As the election campaign wound to its climax last week, Mrs. Gandhi was desperately trying to win back some unexpected-and highly significant-defectors: farmers and villagers who live in the countryside of northern India, a densely populated area that city people have scornfully dubbed the "Cow Belt" because devout Hindu farmers do not slaughter the sacred animals. Big blocks of parliamentary seats from the Cow Belt have been crucial to all five of the Congress Party's national electoral victories since 1947. But while accompanying the candidates on a swing through the region, which includes...
While many of Mrs. Gandhi's Cow Belt gatherings have been thin and lethargic, rallies for the Janata (People's) Party-the first unified opposition to confront the Congress Party in a national election-have been packed with attentive crowds. The speakers generally echo the line of Jayaprakash Narayan, 74, the respected conscience of the opposition, who notes that this may be India's "last chance to vote for democracy." Opposition campaigners are careful to attack Mrs. Gandhi with ridicule and sarcasm rather than abuse. When supporters of Jagjivan Ram at one rally shouted "Death to Indira...
...Cambridge could learn a little more about Mother Nature. Crimson sportswriter Robert Sidorsky reported that Big Red fans at the Cornell-Harvard hockey game tied "a rubber chicken" to Petrovek's goal. Well, any self respecting Cornellian could tell you that that chicken was as live as a cow in heat. If Sidorsky can't tell the difference between a rubber chicken and a real one maybe he better come out here to the country for a few days; we would be happy to teach a city boy like him the facts of life. Michael Ullmann '80 Cornell University
...wound up with fewer than ten nominations-one of which, to be sure, went to Sanjay. He will be running for a seat adjoining his mother's in Uttar Pradesh -a fact that strikes many Indians as ironically in keeping with the party's electoral symbol, a cow and a calf. In this case, mother and son are yoked together in what seems, more and more, to be the political campaign of their lives...
...preached publicly on the urgent need to stave off the "crumbling of the scientific enterprise." Today, with that enterprise clearly waxing (federal funding for science this year: $24.7 billion, up 67% in eight years), Handler's excessive reaction may seem like that of a pampered sacred cow at the approach of a foot-and-mouth inspector. The fact is that the new skepticism, at bottom, is not antiscience at all. It is only at war with the once prevalent assumption that science and technology should be allowed utter freedom, with little or no accounting to those who have...