Word: indira
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...late, however, things have begun to change. In his last months as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri took a few steps toward a freer economy. The trend has built up steam under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...four months as Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi has been largely spared the biting public criticism that Indian politicians are accustomed to meting out to their leaders. It is partly a matter of simple courtesy to a woman. It is also partly a matter of respect for her father's memory. But of late there has been a good deal of grumbling inside the ruling Congress Party. And one of the charges is that the child of Jawaharlal Nehru is abandoning her father's nationalist and socialist ideals...
...interests of the country, I shall not hesitate to do so," she snapped. "Foreign aid is necessary to make us independent. I say this with firmness: nobody outside or inside this country can shake me from my chosen path." And if the delegates did not like her approach, challenged Indira, "then remove...
...impressed most Indians with her sensible handling of the country's food shortage. While many have been forecasting millions of deaths this year from starvation, Indira has quietly maintained that the country can escape actual famine. She is making her appraisal come true by lining up 3,500,000 tons of emergency U.S. food...
...terrible to let socialist doctrine stand in the way of solution. At his recommendation, an agricultural program was adopted last December that, among other things, allows foreign firms to build and operate their own fertilizer plants-and set their own prices. After Shastri died, the new Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing the world's biggest potential fertilizer market when they see it, American firms are hurrying to get in on the ground floor. Items...