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RHODESIA FELL only after bloody struggle, and today the world and freedom fighters must appraise the future of the remaining subjugated nations in southern Africa. Moralists, who fear armed struggle but who know change must come, promote their panacea, passive resistance. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. each used this weapon of peace to successfully obtain relief from two of the world's strongest nations, and their disciples believe it will work anywhere...
...first female-and youngest-Prime Minister, following the resignation of the increasingly unpopular Odvar Nordli, 53. A physician with a Harvard master's degree in public health, Brundtland thus became the third member of that highly exclusive club-women heads of government (along with Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi). Nicknamed "the green goddess" for her impassioned protection of the Norwegian woods, Brundtland favors backing NATO strongly and stationing U.S. military equipment in Norway. But some Norwegians are more impressed with her talent for building political coalitions...
...fact, Moraes seems unsure if his book is about Indira Gandhi or whether he is writing his own autobiography. The story is related entirely from the first person; when he describes what little contact he had with the prime minister--very formal--he indulges in speculation of how she might have reacted to him. In describing her personality, he often cites himself as an example from which to make comparisons. What little perspective he includes could be gathered from casual reading of any of India's numerous English-language weekly magazines...
...egocentric approach speaks for the severe self-consciousness of many Indians, who see themselves through Western eyes. But, although Indira Gandhi remains an enigma to Western observers, Moraes's accounts of random conservations with Indians about their leader grasp the essential point of her power--her appeal to the purely Indian spirit...
...contrast, Moraes describes a conversation he often has with Indian peasants. They ask him, Oh, are you from Delhi? Do you know our empress? Have you seen her?" Perhaps through her authoritative wielding of power or her strongly maternal figure, Indira Gandhi has managed to fight back the unflinching appeal to the West and give something to India that might...