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...Anand. "Nehru and the Western-educated intelligentsia began with the cities and worked downward. So disparity continues. While we have jumbo jets, luxury automobiles and 100,000-guest wedding receptions, in many villages women have to walk a mile to get potable water for their badly lit homes." Indira Gandhi recently admitted that "some of the directions which we have taken in all good faith are not perhaps entirely adequate for the needs of our people...
...move to break up large agricultural holdings or redistribute wealth and property as she promised in her last campaign. One reason is that few any longer believe that public ownership, with its accompanying reams of red tape, will necessarily provide a panacea for India's problems. Indira's efforts have been aimed at generating greater production both in the private and public sector and hence providing greater employment while curbing inflation...
...India and Pakistan, Connally made a point of praising the "high statesmanship" of Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in their efforts to ease current strains, but there was no sign of a thaw in U.S.-India relations. From Pakistan, the magical mystery tourist flew on to a meeting with Pope Paul VI in Rome, then back...
Korea, moreover, was only one of several prickly situations that seemed to be yielding to a kind of gathering spirit of conciliation. India's Indira Gandhi and Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met in the Himalayan foothills to talk over their deeply entrenched differences. The Viet Nam negotiations, which the U.S. angrily broke off two months ago, will resume this week when both U.S. Ambassador William Porter and North Viet Nam Chief Negotiator Xuan Thuy return to the Paris peace table, amid fresh speculation that both China and the Soviet Union have been pressing Hanoi to settle...
...Himalayan hill station of Simla, where the plans were laid for the new nation of Pakistan to be carved out of British India 25 years ago, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto pledged last week to "put an end to the conflict and confrontation" that have embroiled the two nations in four wars.*In a document worked out by aides during five days of negotiations, the two leaders agreed to consider the restoration of diplomatic relations and communications, suspended since last December's 13-day war, and to resume air links and overflights...