Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When she was a girl, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 64, younger sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, awoke from a nap outdoors one day to find a cobra looming over her, its great hood spread. Soothsayers promptly foretold a remarkable career for her-and that she has had, as India's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1947-49), the U.S. (1949-52), and first and only woman President of the U.N. General Assembly (1953-54). Now eight times a grandmother, and Governor of Maharashtra state, Mme. Pandit has been chosen by the Congress Party as their candidate in next month...
Despite this ambitious bill of particulars, the nonaligned really agree on few major issues. What began under Nehru's leadership in Belgrade as a noninvolved bloc between the two superpowers has disintegrated because of the march of events. At most, what they have in common today is a ritualistic opposition to "imperialism," shrewdly mixed with a desire to profit from all sides in the cold war to further their own nationalism...
...harvest and massive new U.S. grain shipments would end the worst part of the food crisis within four weeks. Aware that accepting such increased aid from the U.S. had exposed him to leftist criticism, Shastri hotly insisted that he was remaining on the path of the late beloved Jawaharlal Nehru - whose "nonaligned" posture did not prevent him from taking healthy doses of help from the West. As for his Communist attackers, he said they think "in terms of destruction and not construction" and have to "wait for instructions from outside. They do not think for themselves...
...plus an assortment of other military hardware and help in building a complete MIG assembly plant. And Shastri himself was preparing to leave the Indian subcontinent for the first time in his life, to fly to Cairo for next week's meeting of the nonaligned bloc in which Nehru had been such a towering figure...
...when, to repel the Red Chinese attack in the Himalayas, the nation seemed united and resolute. Indians swarmed to enlist, pledged their hoarded gold to the government, and willingly accepted a hike of income taxes by as much as 450% . Since then the course has been downhill. Nehru's illness and death were followed by the accession of tiny, introspective Lai Bahadur Shastri as Prime Minister. Almost immediately, Shastri himself suffered a heart attack; and although he seems recovered, he has stayed close to Delhi, making no attempts to travel and show himself to the Indian masses, who will...