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...supreme faith come through loud and clear throughout Leaders. Much of Nixon's analysis gets lost in his effort to distill these dual ideas, especially in his discussions of Third World leaders. Here, for instance, "stubborn adherence to socialism" is the lynchpin for his criticisms of people like Nehru or Nasser, his too-brief analyses of these figures are left turgid and unrevealing...
...idealistic reason, but because it is a necessity for us. We want our neighbors to be stable and strong. Nothing is so dangerous as a weak neighbor. You just do not know what they will do. Throughout the years, we have taken all the initiatives. My father [Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister] offered a no-war pact in 1949, and in different forms the offer has been repeated. Then we signed the Simla Agreement [a 1972 accord that calls for the two countries to negotiate their differences], but they did not want the words no war used...
...Nehru family dynasty. Suppose I want somebody to become Prime Minister. How could I manage it? That person would have to go through the grilling process of election. It is a question entirely of who the country wants. The people have reposed confidence in my family dating back to my grandfather because they feel we are sincerely concerned. I do not know whether the people will continue to vote for my family when the time comes. After all, I had a very big defeat...
Squirreled away in his safe-deposit box, Calvin Trillin keeps a list of prominent novelists who once sported Nehru jackets. Occasionally, he will take out this list and peruse the names the way a stamp collector savors his Luxembourg misprints. That is precisely what readers ought to do with Trillin's essays in Uncivil Liberties, originally written for the Nation from...
...brother Sanjay would have favored a big celebration, but Rajiv Gandhi, 36, is more modest. The hurrahs were subdued last week after the eldest son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru-won a landslide by-election victory and captured the parliamentary seat vacated as a result of Sanjay's death last June. Wearing the white homespun kurta-pajama favored by Indian politicians, Rajiv met simply with a few friends and reporters at his mother's house, where he lives...