Word: gandhis
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Bicentennial Messages to America from antidemocratic authoritarians such as President Luis Echevarria Alvarez of Mexico and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India are inappropriate...
During a three-day barnstorming tour of Maharashtra state, Sanjay Gandhi was asked in Bombay whether he intended to run for Parliament in the next election. Answered the imperious younger son of India's imperious Prime Minister: "I do not even know when the elections are to be held...
...part of our Bicentennial observance, TIME asked leaders of nations round the world to address the American people through the pages of TIME on how they view the U.S. and what they hope-and expect-from the nation in the years ahead. This message from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India is the seventh in the series...
...following year, on the very day Mrs. Gandhi declared a state of emergency and detained thousands of her opponents without trial, Fernandes went underground. For almost a year, until his arrest in Calcutta last June, he traveled the country disguised as a Sikh, with a flowing beard and turban. Gradually, he organized a resistance movement, published a clandestine mimeographed newsletter and-according to the prosecution-staged a number of bombings. If found guilty, he will face a sentence of life imprisonment...
After passage of the bill, Mrs. Gandhi may lift the state of emergency and may hold the postponed elections. By that time, after all, many of the extraordinary powers of the emergency administration will have become ordinary, a permanent part of India's political life...