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...shoo-in for Indira. That was the dominant opinion when, after a year and a half of "emergency" rule, India's Prime Minister two months ago called elections for mid-March. Presumably, went the argument, shrewd Indira Gandhi would not be going to the voters unless she was certain of victory. But by last week, many observers in New Delhi were convinced that the elections Mrs. Gandhi could not lose had turned into a horse race...
What happened? For one thing, smarting under Indira's quasi-dictatorial rule, the opposition learned to work together for the first time. Said a former Cabinet member: "She has forged us together with bars of steel." Most of the country's leading opposition parties have merged into a new group, the Janata (People's) Party...
...destroyed once again," Miss Lillian, 78, and Grandson Chip, 26, flew to New Delhi to lead the official U.S. delegation at the funeral last week of Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Jimmy Carter had nothing to worry about. His mother's Southern grace charmed everyone, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who invited her home for what Miss Lillian called "a nice, family time." Said Mrs. Gandhi: "I am deeply touched...
...Marwah, a professor at Clark University who visited India last month, said that Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency two years ago in response to a power struggle between two factions of India's governing elite...
When asked whether Indira Gandhi would relinquish power if she lost the election, Marwah, who served as chief electoral returns officer in India until 1967, said, "I am not a clairvoyant, but I don't think she will declare another state of emergency to stay in power. Anyway, we shall see for sure in three weeks...