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...busy, and so did North Korea's Kim II Sung and Uganda's Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada. Among those who did gather in Colombo: Viet Nam's ascetic Premier Pham Van Dong, Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, India's stately Indira Gandhi, Cyprus' black-bearded Archbishop Makarios...
Figures such as Buddha and Gandhi have been removed from us, but now one is palpably among us, and the opportunity is thrilling...
...India, claims of torture used against political prisoners have steadily increased since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency 13 months ago. The New York-based International League for Human Rights charged last June that Indian jailers have been guilty of "torture, brutality, starvation and other mistreatment of prisoners." Common methods: beatings with steel rods and rifle butts, electric shock and burning with candles...
When a nation has to battle for its very survival, concepts such as democracy don't mean very much to its people [June 21]. The last thing India needs today is a return to the pre-emergency chaos. Mrs. Gandhi has done more to move India forward than any previous leader (including her illustrious father...
...However bright India's short-term economic outlook may be, its political prospects are far less certain. If the new monsoon is normally heavy, if public order prevails, and if she can be absolutely sure that she and her party will be returned with a handsome majority, Mrs. Gandhi will call free-and presumably democratic -elections late this year or in the spring, and these elections will undoubtedly be accompanied by a relaxation of the strictures imposed during the emergency. This does not mean that Indian democracy will ever be quite the same again; the parliamentary system, the courts...