Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best of times, it was not the worst of times. It was, as Moynihan told us after Indira Gandhi had proved that a Watergate was impossible in India, the year that the United States became the world's largest democracy. It was the year Kuwait surpassed the United States in per capita income and Italy beat France in per capita wine consumption. The year Exxon became the world's largest corporation and the Comoro Islands the smallest member of the U.N. It was the year everyone heard of South Molucca...
...opposition member of India's Parliament cited that familiar saying last week when he was asked to comment on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's latest steps to preserve her firm rule over India's destiny. At the annual convention of her ruling Congress Party in Chandigarh, 150 miles north of New Delhi, Mrs. Gandhi announced, to no one's great surprise, that she would ask Parliament to prolong the state of emergency she declared last June and to postpone next month's elections for another year. Since the Congress Party enjoys a two-thirds majority...
Although her mandate had seemed assured, Mrs. Gandhi apparently decided that she could not afford to take any chances. Free parliamentary elections in 1976 might well have triggered state elections in Kashmir and Tamil Nadu -two states where opposition forces remain strong. Moreover, in order to hold elections, Mrs. Gandhi would presumably have felt obliged to lift the state of emergency, if only to give a semblance of a free campaign. That she was not prepared to do. If the emergency were lifted, she told the convention, neither her 20-point social and economic program nor any other program could...
...Gandhi also insisted that there could be no restoration of civil liberties because of possible foreign influence...
...torrent of anti-American speeches at the convention, she charged that "some powers that had tasted success in their destabilization game in Chile nurtured similar designs against India." In response to this implicit attack on U.S. policies, Washington officially expressed its "concern and dismay" to New Delhi. "Mrs. Gandhi genuinely believes that Indian society must be transformed," says one veteran diplomat in New Delhi. "But, all the disclaimers to the contrary, she probably also believes that she is the only person who can do it." For the time being at least, many of India's 600 million people...