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...last week hoped to get a longer-than-usual look at Indira Gandhi, who in more ways than one is India's most intriguing woman. She attended the opening of the New York World's Fair, but before she had a chance to show off more than three or four of her exquisite saris, she was called back to India by her father, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The ailing Nehru wanted "Indu" (Moon), as he calls her, at his side for an important confrontation this week with Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," who has been demanding...
...Indira draws much of her influence from being Nehru's daughter, but she is extraordinarily able and talented in her own right. She has been particularly important to him since his stroke early this year, often functioning as his link with other officials and the world at large. At one time it was rumored that Nehru wanted to groom her as his successor, but that possibility, to all intents and purposes, is out. A more serious prospect is that she may become India's Foreign Minister; left-wingers want her in the job, hoping that she would follow...
Magic Name. Holding no government office, Indira is nonetheless a member of the ruling Congress Party's powerful Working Committee, which guides all government actions. Voluble and imperious, she has had little experience of statecraft, and is noted, in a Western diplomat's words, for "thinking with her heart." Her foes predicted disaster in 1959 when she was elected president of the flabby, faction-torn Congress Party. But in her whirlwind year on the job, Indira showed considerable political acumen...
Moon herself caused Daddy a major headache on a visit to Moscow last year when she publicly denounced India's agreement to accept a Voice of America transmitter, aggravating a controversy that finally forced Nehru to renege on the deal. But Indira took a strong stand against the Red Chinese invasion and spent days, from dawn to dusk, in airplanes surveying the front...
...struggle over the succession continues. Leftists, led by the discredited Krishna Menon, still hope to boost Daughter Indira into power, but she may well settle for taking over her father's second job as External Affairs Minister. At the moment, a trio of right-leaning moderates are in control: Home Minister G. L. Nanda, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and Minister without Portfolio Lai Bahadur Shastri...