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...rulers. They are eager to prove that they can enforce the 1973 Foreign Exchange Regulation Act better than Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, which was thrown out of office last March. The new mood is a far cry from the more tranquil days of 1950, when Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of newly independent India, sipped Coke as the cornerstone was laid for an Indian Coke-bottling plant, or in the mid-'60s, when the Dalai Lama, in India as a refugee from the Communist takeover of Tibet, happily quaffed Coke...
Gandhi's confidence in her authority caused her to foster the political ascendancy of her son Sanjay, thereby provoking the accusation that she was attempting to continue the Nehru dynasty into a third generation. Sanjay, though, lacked political experience and would hardly have been a competent successor to his mother, or anyone else. By making him the head of the Congress Party's youth wing, Gandhi not only supplanted several senior party leaders, but she also disregarded an Indian political ethos which holds that age and experience deserve proper respect. After all, Sanjay was little more than a rich, rowdy...
...declared that India would follow a course of 'truer nonalignment.' "The Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty must not come in the way of our friendship with any other state--we won't have special relations with any country," he said. However, Indo-American relations will probably improve since, beginning with Nehru's friendship with former president John F. Kennedy '40, Democratic administrations have generally favored India. Still, India does depend on the Soviet Union for most of its military equipment (especially spare parts), and Desai will have to face that reality...
Gone was Indira Gandhi, after eleven years as Prime Minister. Gone also was her abrasive and ambitious Sanjay 30, whom she had been grooming to carry on the tradition of the House Nehru. Gone was the stranglehold of the Indian National Congress, one of the century's great political movements and the ruling party in India for the past 30 years. Gone was the state of emergency of and the common wisdom that India was drifting ever closer to dictatorship...
...answers, both straight-forward and way the hell off the track. But as I sit here now, NOBODY, but nobody could compare with the answers that were turned in by Esserman, so I might as well just give you her choicest brainstorms before the fellas in the white nehru jackets pack her away for posterity...