Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would "drive fear out of society." Two months earlier he had been a prisoner without trial under the repressive state of emergency; last week, as he became the fourth Prime Minister of India, he promised to restore civil liberties, adhere to the principles of local development idealized by Mahatma Gandhi and maintain a scrupulously nonaligned foreign policy. A lifelong politician in the Gandhian mold, Desai is as eccentric as he is ascetic, and he leads a fractious coalition party that could fall apart under the slightest stress Nonetheless, whatever troubles ahead for India, his party's startling tory...
...would try to repeal her constitutional amendments restricting civil liberties and the powers of the courts. He also said his priority in domestic policy would be to "remove poverty" and end unemployment, a task he concedes might take a long time. Like other Janata leaders he is preoccupied with Mahatma Gandhi's ideal of local development, and will probably stress agriculture and village industry rather than big business and heavy industry...
Political heir. The opposition's patron saint is Jayaprakash ("J.P.") Narayan, 74, who is sometimes called the political heir of Mahatma Gandhi. It was he who declared two years ago that police and soldiers were not obliged to follow orders they regarded as unlawful -and thereby gave the government an excuse for imposing the emergency in June 1975. Narayan spent five months in jail without trial but was released in November 1975, when he appeared to be near death from kidney disease. For months he has been obliged to go either to Bombay or his home in Patna every...
JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN--a disciple of the father of Indian independence, the late Mahatma Gandhi, Narayan has long been a national folk hero in India. Affectionately known there as J.P., Narayan has helped organize four national parties under the banner of the Janata [People's] Party in opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
Henry David Thoreau will not speak this week. Nor will Mahatma Ghandi. Timothy Leary may speak, but not in Boston, and only Bob the Bagman could understand him anyway...