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...Suárez González and dominated by his Democratic Center Union. Voters in India swept Prime Minister Indira Gandhi out of office after 18 months of her emergency rule. The new Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, launched civil and criminal investigations into the discredited Gandhi government, but by year's end had still not focused his attention upon India's real problems of overpopulation, economic inflation, unemployment and growing labor troubles...
...martial law?" Former President Diosdado Macapagal, meanwhile, made the rounds of the city's civic clubs. "Sixty thousand people have been arrested over the past five years," Macapagal told his audiences. "Let him run in a free election, and he'll get a worse beating than Indira Gandhi...
...plant in Bombay in 1951 by Jawaharlal Nehru; he believed India could assert its independence only by building up its own industries, but felt that this could best be accomplished if fledgling Indian firms operated in tandem with foreign companies. Under the leadership of Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi, the government pushed the notion of industrial nationalism much further. Indian officials assert that India's struggling state-owned Computer Maintenance Corp. could service the IBM equipment in the country without difficulty; after all, that should not be beyond a country that has produced an atomic bomb, nuclear power...
...that "onlies" tend to do better in life than those folks distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw up at least as impressive a litany of luminaries who had brothers and sisters. Let's see, there was Moses, Milton, Napoleon...
Less than 24 hours later, Mrs. Gandhi flew to Gujarat, Desai's home state north of Bombay, and told a crowd of thousands that she would continue to "speak for the people" and "give them a lead." But Indira's triumph may yet prove a fleeting one. The magistrate's ruling will almost certainly be overturned by the High Court, and there are said to be other cases pending. At week's end the Home Minister was confiding that he fully expected to arrest Mrs. Gandhi again. But next time he had better strike hard...