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...provide the small landholders with low-cost credit and technical help; the farmers must also be allowed to charge enough for their crops to give them the material rewards for increased output. Labor-intensive manufacturing, using simple machinery-perhaps even the spinning wheel advocated by India's Mohandas Gandhi-should be located in rural areas to use productively the vast armies of underemployed...
...Indira Gandhi. In 1975, a year dedicated to women, she has conclusively shown that even when it comes to ruthlessness, women are determined to keep pace with the toughest and most ruthless...
...comics as the best in the world, and he won't let his other interests interfere with perpetuating them. He smiles shyly as he contemplates the burden of his responsibility to his artistic medium: "It's a mission. It's a calling. I figure there's Billy Graham, Mahatma Gandhi...
...delight of her fervent followers, five justices of the Supreme Court of India last week ruled that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was innocent. In separate but concurring opinions, the judges upheld the legality of the 1975 election-law amendment-passed retroactively by India's rubber-stamp Parliament after opposition members either were arrested or walked out-that changed the statutes under which Mrs. Gandhi had been found guilty of corrupt campaign practices. In essence, the ruling reversed the June Allahabad high court decision that would have barred her from holding elective office for six years...
...Allahabad decision had triggered a mounting protest campaign by Mrs. Gandhi's opposition that led her to declare a state of emergency and suspend many of India's democratic freedoms. After the Supreme Court's ruling, Mrs. Gandhi emerged from her New Delhi home to speak to a jubilant crowd of her supporters. "In joy and sorrow you have always been with me," she said, denouncing her opponents as "those who started the trouble." The Prime Minister gave no clue as to what she would do next. Unquestionably, she will push ahead on the ambitious social...