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...familiar, yet unlikely, candidate was Indira Gandhi, personally carrying her pitch to an estimated 90 million voters in a 25,000-mile nationwide campaign. She was defiantly attempting nothing less than the possible restoration of the dynastic House of Nehru to Indian politics, a move that not many would have predicted only a few months earlier. Just 21/2 years ago, the 62-year-old daughter of India's revered first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was roundly turned out as Prime Minister, and even as an M.P., when an angry electorate swept her faction of the Congress Party from office...
Only a year ago, Gandhi had spent a week in jail for contempt of parliament; she is still facing four court cases involving abuses of power during the 21-month emergency dictatorship she established in 1975. In this week's national election, however, she was likely to regain her parliamentary seat; her son, Sanjay, out of prison on appeal, was also expected to be elected to parliament...
...Middle East, the Soviet Union, China and India. In her first months as head of the New Delhi bureau, she has traveled through the Indian subcontinent to reacquaint herself with the region's politics and varied cultures. She has followed the election campaign of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, covered a public flogging in Rawalpindi and finally traveled to Islamabad for her appointment with danger. "It was not quite the way I had planned to spend Thanksgiving," she says of her ordeal. "But I am really in the spirit of the holiday now. When you think you will either...
...appear in my journalistic pantheon of world leaders, but that he had never bothered to read any of my other interviews. That is not what he said to me when he received me in his office. For one full hour he discussed my interviews with Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Ali Bhutto and Yasser Arafat, and explained that leaders don't have to be intelligent, only strong and determined...
...never held public office; of heart disease; in Patna, India. Born in a small village, Narayan studied in the U.S. for seven years, supporting himself as a fruit picker while, he later said, drinking "deep at the fountain of Marxism." On returning to India in 1929, he joined Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the struggle to liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir apparent to Nehru as Prime Minister, but he abandoned national politics in 1954 to devote the next 20 years to sarvodaya, a movement...