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Such criticism might suggest that Mrs. Gandhi will face a close race in the forthcoming elections, but few believe that. The economy is relatively healthy, the inflation rate only about 10%, and the country's fabled "monsoon politics" are once again running in the Prime Minister's favor. The Sikhs may grumble that their heartland has become "the Ulster of India," but the majority of the electorate appears to be on her side...
...GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR, the study concludes would have extreme consequences for the global climate creating surface darkening over many weeks subfreezing land temperatures persisting for up to several months and strong monsoon like weather patterns. In short the study notes "a harsh 'nuclear winter' in any season...
...Italian with his letch for the ladies, the slow Poles and happy blacks), or that the big football game follows a scenario that is both predictable and improbable (with only a few seconds left to play, the coach calls for a hand-off in his own end zone in monsoon mud), or that the heroine is called upon to utter lines that Gale Page would have found too naive to speak in Knute Rockne -All American...
...wounded raiders are seeking to drain the water from their suburban Bangkok district; the gunman is protecting his dryer neighborhood. Elsewhere in the sodden Thai city, slumdwellers stage boat races in water fouled with raw sewage, and medical teams distribute antityphoid vaccine and foot-fungus ointment. It is monsoon season in Southeast Asia, and as this year's rains have made all too obvious, Bangkok (pop. 5.5 million) is slowly sinking...
Still, Deputy Prime Minister Phichai is determined to solve the problem. Says he: "Even if it would cost 10 billion baht [$435 million], I don't mind." Others fear that the project will fall victim to post-monsoon mat pen rai. Predicts one specialist on flood control: "After autumn, after the rains, they will forget...