Word: gandhis
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India's reputation as "the world's largest democracy" perished abruptly on June 26, 1975, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the imperious daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, imposed a "state of emergency," curtailed civil liberties and imprisoned tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of her political opponents. But if Indian democracy had been destroyed in a single night, it was miraculously reborn only 21 months later when Mrs. Gandhi and her Congress Party were overwhelmingly defeated at the polls...
...wrote for The New Yorker, Ved Mehta traces the corrosive effect of unchallenged political power during what he calls an "Orwellian passage of time." Mehta, who was born in India but has lived in the U.S. for many years, recognized from the beginning how dangerous a path Mrs. Gandhi had chosen. By her action, he wrote, "she risked making it possible for politicians, much more ruthless and power-hungry than she, one day to dislodge her and perpetrate abuses of power previously unimagined...
...Soviets have had their share of intelligence failures. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the KGB failed to detect Israeli preparations for crossing the Suez Canal, and underestimated the maneuver's importance once it was under way. In New Delhi, the resident KGB team concluded that Indira Gandhi would easily win re-election in 1977. More embarrassing was the gambit of Vladimir Rybachenko, who served in Paris as a UNESCO official. Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described a French Defense...
...people with the same ideals, the same objectives and the same dedication to the common good," Chandrajit Yadava, chairman of the All-India Peace Committee and the former minister for steel and mines in Indira Gandhi's cabinet, said during the discussion yesterday...
...Gandhi argues that the Shah commission is carrying on a political vendetta. Clearly, her clumsy efforts to re-enter the political arena last week were mainly designed to reinforce that claim. Her attorneys have advised her to challenge the commission's authority to investigate her as a political leader, in the hope of gaining time for their beleaguered client. Ultimately, however, her repudiation at the polls may be followed by public exposure and disgrace...