Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice of Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister of India [Jan. 28] is not only a tribute to the lady herself and her dedicated nation-building family, but also to all the women of India...
...continues to bask in that glory even today. The big bosses of Congress find it convenient to keep a compromising or a weak Prime Minister in New Delhi so that they can control the states. It.is to perpetuate this "reign of terror" that the Congress Party elected Mrs. Indira Gandhi...
...months of imprisonment teaching illiterate Indian women how to read. Free again, she and her husband settled in Allahabad and had two boys, Rajiv and Sanjay (now 21 and 19, they are both studying engineering in Britain). The war stopped short of India's borders; Indira abided by Gandhi's slogan: "It's wrong to help the British war effort with men or money...
...southwest. The Communists had won elections for state officers and had been in power for 27 months when Indira popped in for a visit in 1959. She was horrified. What seems to have upset her most were new schoolbooks that depicted Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, instead of Mahatma Gandhi, as the true heroes of the oppressed. "Everything the Communists are doing is wrong," she cried as she hurried back to Delhi and forced the hesitant central government to oust Kerala's Red rulers and place the state under federal supervision...
...Indira Gandhi has the same hope. Talking to the press last week, she said: "I think that it is in our interest that Russia and the United States are friendly with each other. I don't see the world as divided into right and left. I think most of us are in the center. In a country like India, where the basic problem is one of poverty and of trying to convince the average man that you are on his side, you have to be more or less in the center and try and keep as many people with...