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...When Indira Gandhi mounted the sandstone ramparts of Delhi's Red Fort last week to deliver the traditional address marking the anniversary of India's independence, the heavy monsoon sky was a somber gray. But at least it provided rain and relief from a disastrous two-year drought. That was more than Indira Gandhi and India's 575 million people could hope for concerning the nation's social and economic outlook...
...national security really damaged by the disclosure in 1971 that Richard Nixon disliked Indira Gandhi, and that his Government had decided to "tilt" in the direction of Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani war of that year...
...fact that India desires to bring about a solution to the POW issue has become increasingly clear in recent weeks. On March 31, Indian Premier Indira Ghandi told an Egyptian newspaper that "India does not want to keep the Pakistani prisoners but wants to turn them over to Pakistan within the framework of an overall settlement of problems between the two countries...
...system in India was the grandest genetic experiment ever performed on man," writes Dobzhansky. For more than 2,000 years the Indians tried to induce "genetic specialization" for different kinds of work, and they failed. All castes today contain highly intelligent people. An Untouchable serves as Defense Minister in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet...
...China, which provides economic and military assistance. Last week, in fact, Mrs. Bhutto was in Peking, where she made an impassioned plea for the return of Pakistani P.O.W.s from India. The Pakistani President has also moved for an accommodation with India, meeting at Simla last year with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to define the postwar ceasefire line and reduce tensions in the area...