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...which provides funding and information for students interested in social projects-fears the move will hurt their program by disrupting the group's schedule, Indira Taiwana '82, an E4A member and a drafter of the petition, said yesterday. She added that "a new location may make us less accessible to students...
...Prime Minister [Indira] Gandhi has failed to solve or even to offer effective solutions to India's major domestic problems." The Indian leader appears to have "run out of political steam," and displays "elements of paranoia and cynicism" in "seeking to blame internal problems on external interference." Her ten-month-old government has been categorized by "erratic" performance, "pedestrian and superficial" style, and "dismaying indecisiveness and ineffectiveness...
...reports TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger, does the Prime Minister appear to have regained her old dynamism and come fully alive to these problems. For the first five months after her election, she was preoccupied with consolidating the power of her Congress Party (I) (standing for Indira), calling for elections in nine states and defeating the opposition in all but one. Five of India's 22 states remain in opposition hands; Assam is ruled directly by New Delhi because the state was unable to form a government...
Then in June came the death of her younger son Sanjay in a plane crash; through much of the summer Mrs. Gandhi appeared absorbed by grief. Rumors persisted that she was ill, that she had lost her will to govern. This month, however, Indira Gandhi was on the move, doing what she does best: taking her case to the people. In a series of appearances in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the states with a non-Congress government, she smoothed over differences with Sheik Abdullah, the aging Lion of Kashmir, and blamed communal tensions on hard-line Muslim and Hindu...
...Delhi greeted the decision calmly. Said a spokesman for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi: "We appreciate the efforts of the President to honor his country's commitments." India now is expected to step up plans to produce all of its own nuclear fuel within four years. Until then, India has enough uranium on hand to keep the Tarapur plant operating at about three-fourths capacity. Editorialized the Hindustan Times: "Americans need to be reminded that their action is not going to stop the Indian nuclear program...