Word: gandhi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patil, 68, who is as round-faced and cherubic as Menon is lean and hungry-looking, has served in Nehru's Cabinet as well as that of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi until he unexpectedly lost his seat in the 1967 elections. Patil's professed aim is to "polarize" the catchall Congress Party. "If fellow travelers and Communists are in the majority in the party, then the rest of us must walk out," he says. "If the democrats are in the majority, then the others must walk out or be kicked out." Menon holds much the same view...
BEFORE the polls opened, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi seemed confident and optimistic. Later, while her opponents smeared their foreheads with vermilion and danced in the streets of Calcutta, Indira was withdrawn and downcast. In last week's off-year elections in four of India's most important states, Indira's once all-powerful Congress Party emerged undefeated only in her home state of Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere it went down to stinging defeats. The results were, in fact, so poor that they cast grave doubts on the Congress Party's ability to continue as India...
...India's size cannot cope with its problems unless it learns to place the national interest above every parochial interest." Government officials, however, seemed intent on ducking decisions. Home Minister Y. B. Chavan confined himself to saying that he considered the Bombay uproar "most unfortunate." Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made no statement...
...pacifist stand prompted him to seek nonviolent means of direct political action for the Negro's civil rights. He began to read Gandhi. Distressed by the lack of progress in integration, he and his friends decided to form a nonviolent organization that would preach civil disobedience. That was the beginning of CORE and also the beginning of the sit-ins. "The Movement really began in the early 'forties. Up until that time, all blacks participated in segregation at least passively. It was important that we should not lend ourselves to the evil we condemned...
...everyone in CORE shared Farmer's pacifist views. "Nonviolence was chosen for several reasons. Primarily we were impressed by the fact that the black community had no guns. So we saw ourselves as organizing 'war without violence' -- that's Gandhi's phrase." The first sit-ins took place in Chicago, not a friendly town for demonstrators. "In the early 'forties, public accommodations was not just a Mississippi or Alabama problem--it was a national problem. In Chicago we had to force our way into restaurants. The owners might call in hoods to take care of us, or the police would...