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...Suárez González and dominated by his Democratic Center Union. Voters in India swept Prime Minister Indira Gandhi out of office after 18 months of her emergency rule. The new Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, launched civil and criminal investigations into the discredited Gandhi government, but by year's end had still not focused his attention upon India's real problems of overpopulation, economic inflation, unemployment and growing labor troubles...
Rescue operations soon became entangled in politics. The state government is still controlled by the Congress Party, but Prime Minister Morarji Desai's Janata Party hopes to capture it in elections next February. Inevitably, there were charges from New Delhi that the state had been negligent in failing to warn villagers and careless in rescue efforts. In truth, emergency operations were reasonably effective. If anything hampered the relief effort, it was the seemingly endless helicopter inspections by officials seeking credit for coping with the disaster...
Your tongue-in-cheek handling of the story on Morarji Desai's drinking of urine [Oct. 24] gave an implied O.K. to anyone who could stomach the beverage. This is definitely not the case...
India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai, 81, works twelve hours every day, travels incessantly around India addressing public meetings, talks with vigor and bluntness to his countrymen and conducts the business of government wherever he happens to be at the time...
Early this month Desai startled a meeting of India's Tuberculosis Association by informing his audience that "self-urine" therapy was a cure for cancer and cataracts; he claimed to have cured his own brother of tuberculosis that way. In response to a surprised reporter's question, Desai acknowledged that "for the past five or six years, I have drunk a glass of my own urine-about six to eight ounces-every morning. It is very good for you, and it is even free. Even in the Bible," he went on, "it says to drink from your...