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Died. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 72, fifth President of India and staunch supporter of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. A lifelong champion of democracy and secular rule in India, the Moslem-born, Cambridge-educated Ahmed joined his country's independence movement in 1931, and was jailed twice by the British. His last official act was to sign an order for new parliamentary elections...
...main reason behind Dukakis' resurging political popularity, after two years of legislative opposition and voter disenchantment, is his improved relations with the legislative leadership. Senate President Kevin Harrington and House Speaker Thomas W. McGee run their legislative branches with Indira Gandhi's philosophy of democracy. The Republican opposition is virtually nonexistent--over 75 per cent of the Senate is Democratic--and through the control of committee assignments, patronage, and other traditional tools, the leadership controls the legislature on most major bills. Harrington and McGee get along well with each other and usually cooperate on most matters...
India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 59, is a shrewd tactician who gambles only on sure things. Last month, to the astonishment of her 620 million countrymen, she suddenly relaxed the emergency regulations under which Indians had been living for 18 months, released dozens of leading political prisoners from detention and announced that the country's long-postponed elections would be held in mid-March. By last week Mrs. Gandhi could wish that she had left bad enough alone. Within a span of three days, the opposition staged a vigorous reincarnation and one of her most respected political...
...broken with Mrs. Gandhi so tardily? Some observers noted that Indira's ambitious son Sanjay, 30, had been demanding that a number of party nominations for parliamentary seats be reserved for younger candidates; Ram and other members of the old guard may have feared that Mrs. Gandhi was on the verge of replacing them with fresh faces. Ram's walkout will impede her efforts to reorganize the party, forcing her to maintain a delicate balance between young and old candidates...
Blessing in Disguise. Whatever the reason, and however severe the blow to Mrs. Gandhi, Ram's departure does not necessarily spell her downfall. The Congress Party, having ruled India since 1947, is well entrenched, and Indira remains the country's most powerful-and popular-political figure Moreover, she benefits from the fact that the Janata Party, whose elements range from the right-wing Old Congress faction to the Socialists to the Hindu-first Jana Sangh, is united in almost nothing except its opposition to the existing government. Indeed, as one Janata spokesman confided to TIME...