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...warm words largely obscured the apprehension with which Moscow is believed to have viewed recent events in India, the third-world state in which the Soviets have the greatest economic, political and ideological investment. The strengthening of Mrs. Gandhi's government during the emergency, for instance, has reduced her dependence on the Moscow-lining Communist Party of India. The government's crackdown on some trade union groups, and its efforts to shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi...
...which will inevitably reduce New Delhi's reliance upon the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, both nations still have important reasons for maintaining the special relationship that has existed since the signing of a 20-year friendship treaty in 1971, and the Soviets are obviously relieved that Mrs. Gandhi has finally made her long-postponed visit...
...most of the past year, Mrs. Gandhi has been busy at home enforcing harsh measures to justify the state of emergency she declared last June. That she felt free enough now to make her trip to Moscow, her first overseas journey since the emergency began, is an indication that India is in many respects in surprisingly robust economic health. Thanks to a record wheat harvest of 114 million tons last year-which in turn was produced by the most beneficent monsoon in modern history-the country is enjoying a period of rare prosperity. As a result of a two-year...
...anyone say," demanded Mrs. Gandhi in a speech before her departure, "that we have ever been more united, more stable and more strong than we are now?" She was addressing a special meeting of the All-India Congress Committee, the decision-making body of the ruling party, at which delegates dutifully approved several proposed constitutional changes that will further consolidate the Prime Minister's rule. Among other things, the new amendments will limit the right of the judiciary to strike down laws passed by Parliament, and explicitly forbid court challenges to constitutional amendments passed by Parliament...
...same speech, Mrs. Gandhi proposed a "national fitness" program because "we cannot afford to be a flabby nation-we must get rid of flabbiness in body and mind and be strong in every way." She deplored the fact that women in India, by and large, "have no personality of their own and exist merely to serve the whims of men." Then she turned to the government's stern family planning policy, which aims at reducing the country's growth rate from over 2% to 1.4% by 1980. Among her recommendations: providing a strong program of incentives and "disincentives...