Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nonalign? The question of unity was also on the agenda in New Delhi, where the leaders of the world's three original "nonaligned" nations met last week. Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Indira Gandhi did not quite know why they were getting together. Nostalgically recalling the good old days, Nasser remarked that the world was no longer so sharply split between East and West. "Our world is still governed by strife," he added, as if to suggest that this, at least, was reason to gather...
...frequently careless and incompetent. Academic standards are often pitifully low. Worst of all, because of India's struggling economy, students despair of getting decent jobs once they graduate. It is the more urgent problem of trying to build the economy that prevents the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from building new educational facilities. Mrs. Gandhi has taken a conciliatory attitude toward the students-which many Indians feel will only breed new outbreaks of violence...
...best of times, unity is a problem for India's huge Congress Party. The party is a conglomerate of factions that range from wild splinter leftists to extremists of the right. Since Indira Gandhi came to power nine months ago, holding the party together has become a major task as one crisis, be it food, currency or industrial stagnation, has followed another...
...hardly that, but it afforded Indira Gandhi ample scope within which to woo the electorate. Her critics accuse Indira of having wobbled over the years from left to right and back again. If she recently seemed to be trending leftward, the reason probably sprang more from vote-catching considerations than from shifting convictions. For she knows that if the party fares poorly in the elections, her leadership will be challenged. Waiting for his chance is former
...Asia 60 years ago. The daughter of a Rome, N.Y., Methodist businessman, she took a job as headmistress of a missionary school for girls in Nanchang, China. When she was 43, she married the Methodist Bishop of India and Burma, Frederick Fisher, and through him came to know Mohandas Gandhi. She first met the Mahatma in 1926, sat with him for five hours while he meditated. Years after she was widowed and just before his own death, Gandhi urged her to go to work in India's villages...