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...most talked about political figure in India today is not, technically speaking, a politician at all. He has never run for public office, and even denies that he has firmly set his sights on a political career. Nonetheless, Sanjay Gandhi, 29, the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi* and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, has been hitting the hustings lately as an articulate and outspoken advocate of his mother's policies. Sanjay's political enemies-and even some of his friends-have begun to refer to him as "the crown prince." Veteran Indian politicians are treating...
...best of times, it was not the worst of times. It was, as Moynihan told us after Indira Gandhi had proved that a Watergate was impossible in India, the year that the United States became the world's largest democracy. It was the year Kuwait surpassed the United States in per capita income and Italy beat France in per capita wine consumption. The year Exxon became the world's largest corporation and the Comoro Islands the smallest member of the U.N. It was the year everyone heard of South Molucca...
...Doris Kearns emerged with blotted copybooks, though for different reasons. Attempts to create new heroes failed miserably, despite heroic efforts in the cases of Ruben "Hurricane" Carter and Joey "Kid Blast" Gallo. And some shady characters weathered the year better than might be expected. Idi Amin, Isabel Peron, Indira Gandhi, and Stephen S.J. Hall all cling tenaciously to office...
...Gandhi also insisted that there could be no restoration of civil liberties because of possible foreign influence...
...torrent of anti-American speeches at the convention, she charged that "some powers that had tasted success in their destabilization game in Chile nurtured similar designs against India." In response to this implicit attack on U.S. policies, Washington officially expressed its "concern and dismay" to New Delhi. "Mrs. Gandhi genuinely believes that Indian society must be transformed," says one veteran diplomat in New Delhi. "But, all the disclaimers to the contrary, she probably also believes that she is the only person who can do it." For the time being at least, many of India's 600 million people...