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...former princely state of Gwalior, a scion of maharajahs, Madhavrao Scindia, 39, the local candidate for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) Party, courted voters after descending each day from his sumptuous palace amid a swirl of liveried servants; just as faithfully every morning, his mother regally journeyed from the palace to campaign for an opposition party. In the southern town of Madhuranthakam, a disgruntled politician, who had been refused a place on the party ticket by the Prime Minister, plunged the local election into chaos by persuading 84 people to join him in running as independent candidates. Having...
...promise was kept. At week's end Rajiv, 40, was coasting to a landslide victory in Amethi and in the country at large. In an election whose central issue was Gandhi himself, the 379 million voters who converged upon 479,000 polling places during three days last week gave the new leader an overwhelming vote of confidence. With 90% of the races decided, Gandhi's Congress (I) appeared to have carried at least 400 of the 508 contested seats in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament, while winning more than 50% of the popular vote...
...Indira Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India. She was a giant who made her opponents, detractors and critics look like pygmies...
...applicants before choosing the final lineup. But then, Sir Dickie is accustomed to being patient. He has wanted to do another musical ever since 1969, when he mixed song and satire in his first film, Oh! What a Lovely War, but got sidetracked by the making of Gandhi. Looking back, Attenborough claims that filming the epic of the Mahatma was simplicity itself compared with telling the backstage story of Broadway gypsies. "If you're controlling a crowd of 250,000, it's logistics to a large degree," he observes. "You have the ambience of the plains of India...
Again and again, Prime Minister Gandhi and his ministers reiterated last week their determination to impose, and enforce, new and stricter industrial safety regulations. "We are concerned not only about this plant but about similar places as well," said Gandhi at Bhopal. "I believe there must be an overall government policy change...