Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Traveling the subcontinent as a newcomer to the region, Malkin found "the cumulative effect of an aroused citizenry one of the most moving experiences of my life." At the end of his first two months, he sent a cable to our editors in New York saying that Prime Minister Gandhi might lose. With India again free from repression, Malkin looks forward to his new assignment with enthusiasm: "Watching another country, especially one as unpredictably human as India, emerge into a new era promises to be full of surprises...
...would "drive fear out of society." Two months earlier he had been a prisoner without trial under the repressive state of emergency; last week, as he became the fourth Prime Minister of India, he promised to restore civil liberties, adhere to the principles of local development idealized by Mahatma Gandhi and maintain a scrupulously nonaligned foreign policy. A lifelong politician in the Gandhian mold, Desai is as eccentric as he is ascetic, and he leads a fractious coalition party that could fall apart under the slightest stress Nonetheless, whatever troubles ahead for India, his party's startling tory...
While many of Mrs. Gandhi's Cow Belt gatherings have been thin and lethargic, rallies for the Janata (People's) Party-the first unified opposition to confront the Congress Party in a national election-have been packed with attentive crowds. The speakers generally echo the line of Jayaprakash Narayan, 74, the respected conscience of the opposition, who notes that this may be India's "last chance to vote for democracy." Opposition campaigners are careful to attack Mrs. Gandhi with ridicule and sarcasm rather than abuse. When supporters of Jagjivan Ram at one rally shouted "Death to Indira...
...political machine at its disposal to win friends and influence votes. During the campaign, government workers were granted extra rent and medical allowances, some farm loans were canceled, and a stiff increase in land taxes was halved. The government refused to license private helicopters for political campaigns; meanwhile, Mrs. Gandhi's speech-making trips in her air force chopper were permitted "for security reasons...
When she announced the elections last January, Mrs. Gandhi told her countrymen: "The question now before us is how to restore those political processes on which we were compelled to impose some curbs." The campaign has proved that Indians know how to use those processes-if the government will let them...