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...splitsville for Indira and the comrades. India's Prime Minister and the Moscow-leaning Communist Party of India (C.P.I.) were once the best of friends. In 1969, the C.P.I, helped keep Indira Gandhi in power after she drove the old guard out of the ruling Congress Party, splitting the party in the process. It supported her again when she declared a state of emergency in June 1975 and suspended many civil liberties. As a result, the C.P.I, was the only opposition party without a single member arrested...
...classics may nourish chauvinism and create ideologies. Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies. When the U.S. entered World War I, its schools ceased teaching German. Beethoven and Wagner were taboo. Still, at that very moment, American military research teams were studying German technology. Today, while Indira Gandhi restricts American newsmen and American publications, she desperately tries to make the Indian technology more like the American. Technology dilutes and dissolves ideology...
...about Indira Gandhi: I have just returned from India, and I am surprised to see the changes. For the first time food is available at reasonable prices. For the first time trains are running on time. For the first time the bureaucrats are doing their jobs. I am proud of Indira Gandhi...
...weather in New Delhi was seasonably mild last week, with temperatures mostly in the 70s. If Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had had her way, however, it would have been a lot hotter in the pressroom of the Indian Express (circ. 400,000), the flagship of India's largest newspaper chain. Reason: government officials tried a few weeks ago to rip out the paper's air-conditioning system and auction it off to satisfy a disputed tax bill. Only a last-minute court injunction saved Express workers from a daily steam bath...
Neither do other Indians. Last week Indira Gandhi moved on two fronts to strengthen her powers and continue India's relentless pace toward a more centralized, authoritarian government. The Indian Parliament finally approved a much-debated package of constitutional amendments that limit the powers of the presidency and the courts and enlarge those of Parliament and the Prime Minister. Since Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party holds an overwhelming majority in both houses, the amendments reinforce the party's already substantial power. Shortly afterward, Parliament approved a government request to postpone once again national elections, originally scheduled...