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...Minister of India last week. In the biggest electoral victory of her checkered political career, and in one of the most extraordinary political comebacks of all time, Mrs. Gandhi led her Congress Party to recapture India less than three years after voters had resoundingly repudiated her 21-month "emergency" dictatorship. When the last of the 196 million votes in national elections were counted, her party had won 351 of the 525 contested seats in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament). With a two-thirds majority, she can legally abolish the constitutional safeguards set up to prevent a recurrence...
Charan Singh, the caretaker Prime Minister and leader of Janata's spinoff, the Lok Dal party, fared little better. His campaign warnings that the election of Indira and Sanjay heralded a return to dictatorship were ignored. Lok Dal won only 41 seats in Parliament, including Singh's own. It seemed unlikely that the bitterly quarrelsome Lok Dal and Janata parties could repair their breach in order to form an effective opposition to Gandhi's Congress Party. An ominous prospect, however, is an alliance between the Communist parties that won a total of 37 seats in West Bengal...
Despite a dictatorship, Chile's "Chicago Boys"make good...
...United States should not supply arms to the Moslem rebels in Afghanistan, whatever the merits of their cause, and should not start selling arms to Pakistan, a military dictatorship which may well be working on its own nuclear system. Instead, the U.S. should take the crisis as a chance to show its Third World critics that it does not always live by the sword...
Only a year ago, Gandhi had spent a week in jail for contempt of parliament; she is still facing four court cases involving abuses of power during the 21-month emergency dictatorship she established in 1975. In this week's national election, however, she was likely to regain her parliamentary seat; her son, Sanjay, out of prison on appeal, was also expected to be elected to parliament...