Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days before Indira Gandhi's arrival, Soviet newspapers published story after story about the glories of Soviet-Indian friendship. The soaring trade between the two countries (expected to reach $1.1 billion by 1980). The launching last year of the Indian satellite Aryabhata from a Soviet cosmodrome. The Russian-language publication in Moscow of a collection of Mrs. Gandhi's articles and speeches. At a Kremlin dinner during which he delivered a speech in defense of dtente, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev endorsed the Indian state of emergency ("Your government's actions against internal and external reaction met full...
...warm words largely obscured the apprehension with which Moscow is believed to have viewed recent events in India, the third-world state in which the Soviets have the greatest economic, political and ideological investment. The strengthening of Mrs. Gandhi's government during the emergency, for instance, has reduced her dependence on the Moscow-lining Communist Party of India. The government's crackdown on some trade union groups, and its efforts to shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi...
...which will inevitably reduce New Delhi's reliance upon the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, both nations still have important reasons for maintaining the special relationship that has existed since the signing of a 20-year friendship treaty in 1971, and the Soviets are obviously relieved that Mrs. Gandhi has finally made her long-postponed visit...
...most of the past year, Mrs. Gandhi has been busy at home enforcing harsh measures to justify the state of emergency she declared last June. That she felt free enough now to make her trip to Moscow, her first overseas journey since the emergency began, is an indication that India is in many respects in surprisingly robust economic health. Thanks to a record wheat harvest of 114 million tons last year-which in turn was produced by the most beneficent monsoon in modern history-the country is enjoying a period of rare prosperity. As a result of a two-year...
...volume organized around the theme of the leader in history. The book contains 14 of the interviews Fallaci bagged between 1969 and 1974; on exhibit, in embarrassing nakedness, are the powerful from Henry Kissinger to Alexandros Panagoulis, a dialectical progression that includes Golda Meir and Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi and Ali Bhutto, Dom Helder Camera and Archbishop Makarios...