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Bedeviled by galloping inflation and the threat of famine, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi recently extended the country's tough internal-security laws to cover smugglers, whose illegal trade has grown so large that it is threatening to damage the shaky Indian economy. So far, nearly 400 suspects have been rounded up in the government's anti-smuggling campaign. Under the act, they can be detained for two years without bail while their affairs are being investigated...
Grave Decadence. That was the case in the capitals of the so-called Third World. From New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan angrily cabled the State Department that he had assured Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that the CIA had not been involved in the Chilean coup. Now, he said, she wondered whether India might not be next. Many Latin Americans shrugged; the episode seemed to confirm their suspicions that the CIA invariably is behind the continent's frequent upheavals?political and otherwise...
Encouraged by Langer's accuracy, the Government has been using psychiatric profiles as a tool ever since. Though Ellsberg was the first U.S. civilian to get the treatment, intelligence experts regularly do analyses of world leaders, including Chairman Mao, Indira Gandhi, Archbishop Makarios, as well as Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko and Military Theorist A.A. Sidorenko. Says one official: "Everything a person has written, what he reads, who influences him, his sex life, ailments and prognosis-everything goes into the making of a profile...
...drives-as prodigious as her legendary predecessor Peter. From Nefertiti, the Maid of Orleans and Elizabeth I down to modern times, women leaders have left their mark. The 1970s alone have seen no fewer than four female heads of state: Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Argentina's Isabelita Perón, who took over the presidency last week on the death of her husband...
...those who remember India's gentle spirit Mahatma Gandhi, who tried to teach his countrymen the virtues of pacifism, the idea that his nation might one day become a nuclear power with a deadly arsenal of warheads seems all but unthinkable. In 1968 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-daughter of Gandhi's great friend and political successor, Jawaharlal Nehru-warned Indians that nothing would help their enemies more "than for us to lose our sense of perspective and to undertake measures that undermine the basic progress of the country." Yet India has just exploded an atomic device-somewhat smaller...