Word: gandhi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late, however, things have begun to change. In his last months as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri took a few steps toward a freer economy. The trend has built up steam under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...agree that the changes so far were relatively minor, though hopeful. Full-scale U.S. aid to India is being resumed after a halt caused by the Kashmir war, and an aid-India consortium, organized by the World Bank, will soon announce a $900 million loan to finance imports. Mrs. Gandhi makes it clear that the fact that Western bankers approve of her economics does not rob her of in dependence in foreign affairs. Last week she also announced plans for a visit to the Soviet Union in July...
...four months as Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi has been largely spared the biting public criticism that Indian politicians are accustomed to meting out to their leaders. It is partly a matter of simple courtesy to a woman. It is also partly a matter of respect for her father's memory. But of late there has been a good deal of grumbling inside the ruling Congress Party. And one of the charges is that the child of Jawaharlal Nehru is abandoning her father's nationalist and socialist ideals...
...socialist doctrine stand in the way of solution. At his recommendation, an agricultural program was adopted last December that, among other things, allows foreign firms to build and operate their own fertilizer plants-and set their own prices. After Shastri died, the new Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing the world's biggest potential fertilizer market when they see it, American firms are hurrying to get in on the ground floor. Items...
...Indians hope, all this comes to pass, Indian nitrogenous-fertilizer production will rise from 243,884 tons in 1965 to 2,500,000 tons in five years. With that, grain production should go up from 76 million tons to 120 million tons. And that, says Mrs. Gandhi, would give India "a reasonable margin of safety...