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India, which technically can also buy U.S. arms now, though it is unlikely to do so, reacted immediately and bitterly to the Washington move. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi spoke out against "Pakistan's new belligerence," and at week's end visiting Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko joined with New Delhi in a communique ex pressing "grave anxiety at the actions taken by certain quarters to step up the arms race." Indian Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan, who was scheduled to pre side with Kissinger over the first meeting of an Indo-U.S. Joint Commission that had been...
Meditations and Kicks. Although this holy man has been doing penance only since 1971, when he was an art student, his catalogue of devotions is already longer than Mahatma Gandhi's at twice his age. Burden has caused himself to be nailed through the hands to the roof of a Volkswagen while, in his words, "screaming for me, the engine was run at full speed for two minutes." He has strewn broken glass on a street in Los Angeles and crawled naked through it; at the Basel Art Fair last year (a feast day, on which many priests...
...first ranking national politician assassinated in India since Mohandas Gandhi was shot in 1948, Mishra had recently been the target of corruption charges involving the issuance of import licenses during his term as Minister for Foreign Trade (1970-73). The agitation in Bihar has been aimed at unseating a state government that Mishra, himself a Bihari, had strongly backed. The movement has been led by one of India's most respected political leaders, Jayaprakash Narayan, 72, a founder of the Socialist Party and one of the last of Gandhi's immediate disciples. Narayan has been pressing...
Violent Elements. Ironically, Mishra's death might well strengthen Mrs. Gandhi's position if, as expected, she decides to call new parliamentary elections this year. It reinforces her charge that Narayan's movement has been taken over by violent elements, and that reactionary forces are seeking to overthrow the country's democratic system. More important, it removes from her government a controversial minister whom she had refused to dismiss but who had become a serious political embarrassment...
...Washington three weeks ago on an extended 17-day trip to 15 nations, his itinerary was a mixture of must calls and maybes. The Secretary of State's official visits definitely included Moscow, for discussions on détente; New Delhi, for conciliatory talks with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; and Rome, for the World Food Conference (see page 42). The Middle East was among the maybes...