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...nearly four months since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi proclaimed a state of emergency in India and assumed authoritarian powers. Today critics of her policies-including some in Washington -are taking a cautious second look. This month a joint Indo-U.S. commission, designed to promote better relations, convened in Washington after a long delay. At the time, President Ford emphasized that Washington had great interest in the "strength, progress and economic viability of India." He said he was still anxious to visit India. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief William Smith recently toured the country and cabled this assessment of Indian...
Last week, however, the new government of Bangladesh let it be known that the country would continue to be called the "People's Republic" after all. The reason for the quick about-face may have been the displeasure of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Having gone to war in 1971 on behalf of Bangladesh in its struggle against Pakistan, India would be unlikely to tolerate any strong new relationship between the two countries that were formerly known as West and East Pakistan...
...diplomats believe that Bangladesh's troubles are far from over. Khondakar is not yet a strong enough figure to rule the country effectively, and fighting could break out among the various military groups at any time. More ominous still is the possibility that if fighting should break out, Indira Gandhi might be tempted to send her army across the border, as she did so successfully in December...
When India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi decided to dispense with the irksome processes of democracy and arrogate all power to herself in June, she was able to take a few cues from her next-door neighbor. Last January Sheik Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh, impatient with the plodding progress and growing anarchy of his impoverished country, pushed legislation through Parliament changing the government to a presidential system giving him enlarged powers. The move surprised some and saddened others, since "Mujib" had long impressed observers as a man of reason and moderation as well as great courage...
...indefinitely. More important, the amendment had the effect of removing her case from the jurisdiction of the courts. The parliamentary action, which swept through the Lower House by a vote of 336 to 0 and the Upper House by 161 to 0, was a ludicrous case of overkill. First, Indira rewrote the law under which she had been convicted. Then, once again taking no chances, she had the constitution amended to render the Supreme Court powerless to rule on her case. That is the way things are today in "the world's largest democracy...