Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson Administration moved urgently last week to forestall the trials and the prospect of executions. It dispatched cogent appeals to Moscow, Cairo and other capitals, also won assurances from Britain's Harold Wilson and India's Indira Gandhi that they would take up the issue during their visits to Moscow. To underscore these maneuverings, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that maltreatment of American airmen would be considered "a very grave development indeed...
...good Communist, Premier Aleksei Kosygin could hardly let China fire the only Red missiles against the U.S. over Viet Nam. So last week he turned a friendship rally for Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi into a launching platform for his most violent attack to date on the U.S. involvement...
...Gandhi had come to Moscow in hope of lining up Soviet support for a peace conference that would allow both sides to stop shooting without losing prestige. She had been allowed to make her pitch over the Russian television network, where she echoed the U.S. argument that the Vietnamese people "must be left free to decide their own destiny without interference from out side forces or pressures." But Kosygin was not catching it. Without mentioning his Indian visitor by name, he told the 2,000 guests assembled in the Great Kremlin Palace that such arguments for a face-saving peace...
...Russians were hardly in a mood to greet British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who flew into town at week's end. As was Mrs. Gandhi's, Wilson's mission was peace in Viet Nam; and for his own political reasons, he was desperately hoping for success. Doubtless, in the back of his mind was the need for a diversion from the economic trouble at home (see WORLD BUSINESS). For all his negotiating skill, Wilson could hardly have expected much as his Comet4 jet touched down in Moscow. The Kremlin had made it amply clear that...
...Indira Gandhi, who in her seven months as India's Prime Minister has looked with clear eyes toward the West, has been under increasing criticism at home for supposedly deserting her father's socialist, nonaligned principles. Thus it was an ideal time to emphasize the family principles by revisiting some of Jawaharlal Nehru's old haunts...