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Nobody really professes to know what the Prime Minister will do. As one observer put it, "Her father relied on his Cabinet, so you could talk to some of his Ministers and get an idea of what he might decide to do." Not so with Jawaharlal Nehru's independent daughter. "She listens to a lot of people," he said, "and then acts on her own." Last week Mrs. Gandhi was asked by reporters about ending the emergency. "When the time comes," she answered loftily, "you will know...
...techniques. He cut so flippantly from one to the other--a laugh here, a sob there--that he destroyed the thoughtful consistency that would have elicited emotional response. Dog Day Afternoon ends up being as realistic and immediate as Dragnet, and no more nor less contemporary than the Nehru jacket...
...With hundreds of delegates on hand, including 55 foreign ministers, the Lima meeting was also a showpiece for the variety and strength of the Third World's forces. There were Africans in bright flowing robes, Arabs bundled in business suits against the chilly, gray Lima winter, Indians wearing Nehru suits-and the world's only woman Foreign Minister, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh of South Viet...
Historians of the future will probably see this counterattack as one of the major events of the 20th century. In 1961 the first conference of nonaligned nations was held in Belgrade under the sponsorship of Yugoslavia's Tito, Egypt's Nasser and India's Nehru. The 1970s saw a rapid growth in their power and sense of purpose as well as in their tendency to blame the industrialized West for many of the world's problems. The U.N. Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, was marred by Third World claims that...
...slain Mujib was a man of enormous magnetism and charm who frequently attracted million-strong throngs with his stirring and emotional oratory. "I have known the impact of Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru," said one observer, "but the depth of feeling Mujib evoked in so many people and so effortlessly was something no other leader had ever done." Jailed for the first time as a seventh-grader when he agitated in favor of India's independence from Britain, Mujib spent more than ten years behind bars, joking, "Prison is my other home...