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...Germany." In Melbourne, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser asserted that the Soviet action "poses dangers to world peace greater than any in the past 35 years." He called on the nations of the world "to show that a line can and will be drawn against Soviet expansion." Even Indira Gandhi, India's newly re-elected Prime Minister, who at first seemed to back the Soviet move, told a New Delhi press conference last week that no "country is justified in entering another country...
...Gandhi had delivered her most crushing blow to Jagjivan Ram's Janata Party, which had emerged triumphant in the 1977 election. Though Janata had split into two factions last summer, pundits favored Ram to become Prime Minister as head of a coalition government. Ram was re-elected to Parliament last week, but his party picked up only 31 seats, compared with 295 in 1977. Particularly mortifying to Ram, an Untouchable, was the fact that the majority of his 85 million fellow harijans had voted for the party of Mrs. Gandhi, an upper-class Brahmin...
...election of Indira and Sanjay heralded a return to dictatorship were ignored. Lok Dal won only 41 seats in Parliament, including Singh's own. It seemed unlikely that the bitterly quarrelsome Lok Dal and Janata parties could repair their breach in order to form an effective opposition to Gandhi's Congress Party. An ominous prospect, however, is an alliance between the Communist parties that won a total of 37 seats in West Bengal. Though the parties have ideological differences, they may join with leftist parties and splinter groups in other states to qualify as India's only...
After receiving congratulations from Ram and Singh, Mrs. Gandhi proceeded to New Delhi's imposing Parliament House. Dressed for the occasion in a shiny new red and gold sari, she received bouquets of roses and garlands of white flowers from the 350 legislators who had been elected under her leadership. President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy then formally invited her to form a government...
...back veranda of her home at 12 Willingdon Crescent in New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi last week briefly outlined some of her foreign policy views for TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger. Mrs. Gandhi declined to say what specific role India would play in the politics of the region since, as she put it, "before you can offer some leadership, you have to set your house in order. At this moment things are in a mess here." But then she added: "That doesn't mean we can ignore what's happening on our borders." Excerpts from...