Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becoming the first modern woman dictator last year, Indira Gandhi proved anew that women can be as domineering as men. An ardent feminist, she has fought the Indian practice of bridegrooms demanding dowries. (One telling vignette: in response to a suitor's request for a motor scooter as a dowry, one village girl jilted the man; he had to settle for a sheep from a less affluent bride...
...world. It goes back for centuries, and was further fanned by 150 years of British imperialism and its policy of divide and rule. Ancient feelings don't disappear all at once. But the Simla conference in June 1972 [at which Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi agreed to work toward better relations] was a good one. It is pure conjecture [that India might start a war]. But a man of prudence would not rule it out, and you have to be a man of prudence if you are running a country...
Somewhere between the two is the vision of the contemporary saint as a person of persistently heroic virtue and courage whose life is a model for others -a Mother Teresa, perhaps, or a Mahatma Gandhi. "A saint is someone by whom one lives," says the Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "someone who for us is a revelation of what life is all about...
...provide the small landholders with low-cost credit and technical help; the farmers must also be allowed to charge enough for their crops to give them the material rewards for increased output. Labor-intensive manufacturing, using simple machinery-perhaps even the spinning wheel advocated by India's Mohandas Gandhi-should be located in rural areas to use productively the vast armies of underemployed...
...Indira Gandhi. In 1975, a year dedicated to women, she has conclusively shown that even when it comes to ruthlessness, women are determined to keep pace with the toughest and most ruthless...