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...splitsville for Indira and the comrades. India's Prime Minister and the Moscow-leaning Communist Party of India (C.P.I.) were once the best of friends. In 1969, the C.P.I, helped keep Indira Gandhi in power after she drove the old guard out of the ruling Congress Party, splitting the party in the process. It supported her again when she declared a state of emergency in June 1975 and suspended many civil liberties. As a result, the C.P.I, was the only opposition party without a single member arrested...
...that the temporary emergency is taking on a distinctly permanent look, the C.P.I, has had some second thoughts. Its leaders are concerned about Mrs. Gandhi's seemingly rightist economic policies-her concessions to private industry, abolition of compulsory bonus payments for workers and curbs on union activity. The C.P.I, is also uneasy about the growing influence of Mrs. Gandhi's ambitious son, Sanjay, 30-he is currently using the youth wing of the party as a power base-whose politics seem pragmatic and even downright antiCommunist. In a lightly veiled reference to Sanjay's following, the C.P.I...
...Gandhi angrily struck back at her erstwhile Communist friends. In a speech delivered before a cheering audience of senior Congress Party leaders in New Delhi, she denounced the C.P.I, and called its assault on Sanjay an indirect attack on her ("He is small fry"). The Communists, she declared, "say they support me, but there can be no greater insult than to say that I could be influenced by reactionaries or by anyone else." Mrs. Gandhi's "exposure" of the Communists evoked a chorus of support from other Congress members, who accused the Communists of "betrayal of the people...
Ambiguous Policy. The counterattack left 'the C.P.I, bewildered, demoralized and divided. After first retreating into silence, some party leaders issued a weak statement saying that the party did not oppose Sanjay's program but feared that it might push Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point program into the background. Other C.P.I, bigwigs urged their party to join the other opposition parties and end its ambiguous policy of "running with the hares and hunting with the hounds." But a hastily organized Communist campaign to enlist popular support by protesting rising prices never got off the ground, and some...
...nourish chauvinism and create ideologies. Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies. When the U.S. entered World War I, its schools ceased teaching German. Beethoven and Wagner were taboo. Still, at that very moment, American military research teams were studying German technology. Today, while Indira Gandhi restricts American newsmen and American publications, she desperately tries to make the Indian technology more like the American. Technology dilutes and dissolves ideology...