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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi arrives in Washington this week for her first official visit in nearly eleven years. Her mission is to narrow India's differences with the U.S. on a number of issues. Among them: Washington's vocal opposition to the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, the sale of 40 American F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan and the controversial U.S. naval base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Prime Minister's son, Rajiv, her heir apparent, will accompany her on the trip. On the eve of her departure, Gandhi discussed foreign and domestic...
...Except for mothers, who know better . . . almost everyone was certain that this was going to be oh such a lovely war." Do you believe mothers like Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir have a visceral repugnance toward shedding the blood of young men, which fathers do not have? Killing is not a masculine preserve...
Brezhnev, or aides acting on his behalf, performed a full range of ceremonial chores last week. Telegrams were sent to North Korean Leader Kim II Sung, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and French President Francois Mitterrand. At the same time, a number of Muscovites claimed to have seen Brezhnev's black ZIL limousine, security abreast, speeding toward the Kremlin. One unidentified Russian also reported seeing the Soviet leader visiting the Granovsky Street clinic in Moscow, where Brezhnev is customarily examined by his doctors...
Another weakness is that the book gives short shrift to Soviet-American military balance and its political implications. Gandhi's strategy of passive resistance was effective against the British colonial rulers of India, but it is hardly applicable to the management of the Soviet challenge. Schell's position, like many others', seems to be that with the Soviet-American nuclear rivalry already at such grotesque levels of overkill, concepts of rough equivalence, equilibrium and stability lose all meaning. That proposition is highly debatable, yet Schell seems almost to take it for granted. While balance of power...
India was freed in 1947, after a long struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi. Subsequently, the Union Jack came down in 41 other colonies, protectorates and assorted territories around the world, from Africa and Asia to the Pacific islands and the Americas. Today Britain is part of the 46-nation Commonwealth, a loose political and trade association composed of its old possessions, now completely independent. Britain still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings...