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...forever. It crumbled and fell. And though the rubble has not yet been completely removed, it no longer separates us from one another, blighting the lives of those on both sides of it." That breakthrough came, Carter said, largely because Martin Luther King Jr., "a spiritual son of Mahatma Gandhi," had taken "Gandhi's concepts of nonviolence and truth-force-and put them to work in the American South...
When Jimmy Carter visited New Delhi on New Year's Day, India's most celebrated political leader was conspicuously absent from the receiving line of dignitaries. In a characteristically flamboyant maneuver to steal the presidential show, Indira Gandhi appeared across town to harangue 5,000 people assembled under a vast, multicolored tent. Ostensibly, the meeting was a convention of India's Congress Party. In fact, it was a gathering of party rebels reinforced by a motley crew of men hired to provide applause for the discredited former Prime Minister...
Dressed in a blazing red sari, Mrs. Gandhi sat cross-legged on the dais while she was unanimously elected president of the breakaway group, which calls itself the legitimate Congress Party. In her 45-minute speech, she attacked the policies of Morarji Desai, who had succeeded her as Prime Minister after her humiliating defeat in last March's election. She also told her supporters that they should be "prepared to go to the jails and fill them in large numbers"-a prospect that was likely to become as unpopular with politicians as her mass sterilization program had proved...
...goes according to schedule, the President will place a wreath at New Delhi's Rajhat shrine to Mohandas Gandhi, outline to the Indian Parliament his hopes for helping the world's poor and explore with Prime Minister Morarji Desai ways to improve U.S.-Indian relations. Under Desai's predecessor, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi warmed up to the Soviets and cold-shouldered the U.S., particularly after President Nixon's "tilt" in favor of Pakistan during the 1971 war with India. Desai and Carter will talk about how the U.S. could aid the Indian economy. The President...
...have approached the seemingly insoluble problem, the historical impossibility. Old impregnable conundrums usually fall to the simplest, most elegant assaults. Alexander's sword at one stroke solved all the mystification of the Gordian knot. Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants-military genius riding through the snow upon absurdity. Gandhi defeated the British raj with a contradiction: nonviolent resistance. In 1955 a weary black woman in Montgomery. Ala., Rosa Parks, refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man; at that instant, three centuries of America's racial tragedy began slowly to unravel...