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...best of times, unity is a problem for India's huge Congress Party. The party is a conglomerate of factions that range from wild splinter leftists to extremists of the right. Since Indira Gandhi came to power nine months ago, holding the party together has become a major task as one crisis, be it food, currency or industrial stagnation, has followed another...
...Johnson Administration moved urgently last week to forestall the trials and the prospect of executions. It dispatched cogent appeals to Moscow, Cairo and other capitals, also won assurances from Britain's Harold Wilson and India's Indira Gandhi that they would take up the issue during their visits to Moscow. To underscore these maneuverings, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that maltreatment of American airmen would be considered "a very grave development indeed...
...good Communist, Premier Aleksei Kosygin could hardly let China fire the only Red missiles against the U.S. over Viet Nam. So last week he turned a friendship rally for Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi into a launching platform for his most violent attack to date on the U.S. involvement...
...Indira Gandhi, who in her seven months as India's Prime Minister has looked with clear eyes toward the West, has been under increasing criticism at home for supposedly deserting her father's socialist, nonaligned principles. Thus it was an ideal time to emphasize the family principles by revisiting some of Jawaharlal Nehru's old haunts...
Before emplaning in New Delhi, Indira gave her countrymen a sample of what she would be saying to her hosts. Speaking on All India Radio, she called for the Geneva Conference co-chair men, Britain and Russia, to reconvene the conference immediately for a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war and pledged that India, as chairman of the conference's International Control Commission, would aid in policing a Viet Nam ceasefire. She also extolled India's traditional policy of joining neither Eastern nor Western blocs. "Nonalignment," she said, "can harmonize the tensions which grow out of changing...