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...Roosevelt? At first, some Westerners gasped in dismay at Mrs. Gandhi's election. They remembered her as the darling of India's left-wingers,the friend of Firebrand Krishna Menon, and the Prime Minister's willful daughter who stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
...Watched. Wilson's replacements added a youthful and vigorous left-right punch to his team. As Transport Minister, he appointed the redhaired, vivacious firebrand of the party's left wing, Barbara Castle, 54, who has been in Wilson's Ministry of Overseas Development. The most important shift involved the new Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins. At 45, he is the youngest member of Wilson's Cabinet -and a man to be watched...
...under the slothful surface, India is astir with powerful new social and economic forces. The nation does not now possess the know-how or the energy to raise itself from poverty and despair. To that extent, India's lethargy is a valuable check against firebrand revolutionaries who would hope to trade on Indian misery with offers of Marxist panaceas. Shastri's emphasis on agriculture is only a stop-gap measure, certainly not the ultimate answer to India's woes. Once it has learned to feed itself, it can then move slowly, sanely toward industrial self-sufficiency...
That struck a responsive chord, and Africa's former French dependencies played it repeatedly, with particular focus on the futile firebrand of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Charging that Nkrumah has bankrupted his nation for his own political ends, Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo drew cheers with his acid observation that "in Ghana you have to stand in line nowadays to buy a box of matches." Should Nkrumah lead a Pan-African government? Chortled Yameogo: "How can he expect to extend that to the rest of Africa when he has lost the allegiance of his own people...
Valencia's lackluster Conservative government is partly to blame. Beyond that, there has long been widespread feeling against the Front's 1966 candidate-Carlos Lleras Restrepo, a longtime Liberal firebrand and a man with many enemies. This month, the Front's divisions exploded into the open when a splinter faction of Valencia's own Conservative Party and a dissident Liberal group joined with followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to form an anti-Front coalition. With 126 of Congress' 282 seats, the coalition has more than the one-third necessary to block all government...