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...this fuss over Ferraro? After Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher, you guys are not "breaking through." You are catching...
...month after she ordered the bloody assault in Punjab against Sikh fanatics at the Golden Temple of Amritsar, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had once again pounded her fist in the name of buttressing India's system of centralized government. Mercifully, there seemed to be little immediate likelihood in Srinagar that the action would lead to the type of bloody confrontation that claimed more than 600 lives in Amritsar. The troops had been sent to Jammu and Kashmir to keep the peace as the state government was being rocked by New Delhi's ouster of the freely elected Chief...
When the Sikhs started their agitation, it was mainly political, with no religious overtones. Sant Bhindranwale provoked no violence [WORLD, June 18]. Indira Gandhi and the Hindu majority in India are to blame for the slaughter that the army committed in the Golden Temple. Sikhs worldwide have never been more united. Even "moderate" Sikhs now demand a separate state, because they know they cannot get justice from the Hindu majority...
Your article on the attack at the Golden Temple painted a gruesome picture of the plight of Sikhs and other minorities in India. With its poverty-stricken masses, India will disintegrate within the next ten to 15 years. There is no central figure after Indira Gandhi to keep that country together. The uprising of the Sikhs is just the beginning of the end of "united" India...
...India faced a gaping, long-term payments deficit. The previous year its oil-import bill had jumped to $5 billion and foreign exchange reserves had fallen by $1.4 billion in seven months. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, then newly returned to office, responded by negotiating the largest loan in the history of the IMF, $5.8 billion. Critics in New Delhi immediately charged that she had plunged the country into a "debt trap." Yet last November, Mrs. Gandhi announced that her government would not need the last $1.1 billion installment of the loan. What had happened? Increased domestic oil production and remittances...