Word: indira
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...eyed lady in the simple cotton sari finished her speech and stepped up to the bamboo barricades that held back the crowd. While thousands of brown hands danced in the air, she took from an aide the day's accumulation of garlands and tossed them to her listeners. Indira Gandhi was doing what she had so often watched Jawaharlal Nehru do in those years past when she had stumped with him across the length and breadth of India. This time, as she pressed her campaign for the national elections that will be held from...
Because they knew that she was their beloved Panditji's daughter, Indians by the thousands last week turned out to greet her. Traveling mostly by auto, Indira went from one dusty village to another in the impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh, campaigned there in the electoral district in which she herself will stand for re-election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Rarely speaking for more than ten minutes, she pleaded for support for the Congress Party. "Do not cut down a tree," she said, "when it is about to bear fruit...
...crowds received her message quietly. For them, the important thing was simply to gaze, almost reverently, on Indira. Villages built arches bearing signs of welcome. Crowds stopped her car, presented her with flowers and begged her to speak. Smiling, Indira responded with "Hail India!" in Hindi before her caravan passed on. In the next two weeks, she intends to keep up the pace; she will visit 15 of the country's 17 states...
...proposals fell far short of the Sikh goals, and cynics among the Sant's followers noted that he had seemed overly eager to escape martyrdom. The whole deal, they suggested, was prearranged. But whether it was or not, Indira was clearly the winner. Lately she has been showing a tendency to buckle under public protest involving everything from cow slaughter to government control of gold merchants. This time she showed that she can also stand firm-at least until after next month's elections...
...week Mrs. Gandhi undertakes another mission of personal diplomacy -this time with the Mizos, a fiercely proud tribe of 260,000 hill people in Eastern India who resent being governed by lowland Assamese and have been showing their displeasure by blocking roads, raiding towns, and attacking Indian Army patrols. Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, promised the Mizos a "Scottish solution," which would grant them a measure of local autonomy. Indira is expected to renew the offer...