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India waited expectantly last week for the address to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. "Some 18 months ago," she said, "our beloved country was on the brink of disaster. Violence was openly preached, workers were exhorted not to work, students not to study and government servants to break their oath. National paralysis was propagated in the name of revolution. The government had to act and did act." She spoke on, defending once again the virtual dictatorship under which her Congress Party had quashed all political opposition, imprisoned dissidents, gagged the press and postponed general elections...
...Gandhi made it clear that, for the time being at least, the state of emergency would continue. But she pledged to "restore substantively those political processes on which we were compelled to impose some curbs," so as to allow a free campaign. A few days later, she formally ended domestic press censorship (censorship of foreign publications had already been eliminated) and ordered the state governments to release all political prisoners...
...gifted tactician, Mrs. Gandhi not only stunned the electorate but once again confounded her opponents. Morarji Desai, 80, the wily leader of the Old Congress Party and an implacable political foe of Mrs. Gandhi's, suddenly found himself released from jail only a few hours before Mrs. Gandhi's broadcast. The relatively short campaign period, he complained, "puts a hardship on the opposition. But I am sure that the sudden declaration of an election will benefit not the Prime Minister but the nation." Declared Piloo Mody, secretary of the Indian People's Party: "I am happy about...
...There was something, however, that gave Mrs. Gandhi's critics pause. Why had she decided to hold elections now? One reason, perhaps, was that the opposition had indicated it was willing to end the disruptive tactics that had led the Prime Minister to declare a state of emergency in the first place. But another, more important reason was that India's economy has rarely been in better shape. Food grain stocks, following two bumper crops, are at an alltime high. Foreign exchange reserves, which are now more than $2 billion, are three times what they were two years...
...Republic of Technology, ruthlessly egalitarian, will accomplish what the prophets, political philosophers and revolutionaries could not. Already it as similates times and places and peoples and things - a faithful color reproduction of the Mona Lisa, the voice and image of Franklin D. Roosevelt, of Winston Churchill, or of Gandhi. You too can have a ringside seat at the World Series, at Wimbledon - or anywhere else. Without a constitutional amendment or a decision of the Supreme Court, technology forces us to equalize our experience. More than ever before, the daily experience of Americans will be created equal - or at least ever...