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...situation has been reached where only God can save the country." So saying, Y.B. Chavan, leader of the opposition Congress Party, offered a routine parliamentary motion of no confidence in the government of India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai early this month. At the time no one took the motion very seriously. But within a few days, Desai's support in the ruling Janata Party, the five-group coalition that routed Indira Gandhi in national elections 28 months ago, had all but evaporated. Last week Desai, 83, was forced to resign, and Indian President N. Sanjiva Reddy asked...
...specialist, Thomas Vrebalovich, went to unusual lengths to pacify critics of the American space venture. He told journalists that if NASA faced the choice of steering Skylab toward either India or America, it would most certainly select the spacecraft's homeland. India's 83-year-old Prime Minister Morarji Desai joined in trying to calm his people's fears. Said he: "Don't get nervous and worried before it happens. It's no use dying before death comes...
...Congress-Indira Party (Congress I), published a special edition whose black-bordered front page carried a faked photograph of her smiling beatifically from behind bars. Thousands of pro-Indira protesters poured into the streets of Indian cities setting fire to buses and buildings and hanging Prime Minister Morarji Desai in effigy; at least 15 people died and Gandhi's followers claimed that 32,000 demonstrators were arrested. Two members of the party's youth wing hijacked an Indian Airlines jet to the holy city of Benares with 132 people aboard; their effort to exchange the hostages for Gandhi...
When 82-year-old Prime Minister Morarji Desai returned home from the U.S. last month, portly Minister of Health Raj Narain was solicitously waiting for him at the airport. As the leader stepped out into the 102° summer sizzle of New Delhi, Narain held out a scented handkerchief. Brushing the offer aside, Desai snapped: "You put perfume here, but you spread a bad smell about the party elsewhere." With that retort the Prime Minister triggered a crisis in his 16-month-old government that led to the resignation of two Cabinet ministers, fractured the fragile unity of the ruling...
...started out at the White House, where he warmly welcomed India's frail-looking but still vigorous Prime Minister, the 82-year-old Morarji Desai. Carter praised his Indian guest for having willingly gone to jail rather than succumb to the restrictions on freedom during the period of Emergency Rule under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Desai responded that both India and the U.S. were bound by "an unshakable commitment to the dignity of the individual" -an endorsement of Carter's position on human rights...