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Preemptive Strike. Mrs. Gandhi still commands a popular following unequaled by any Indian leader since her father, the late Jawaharlal Nehru. But there is no doubt that she is confronted with an increasingly restive populace that is angered by pervasive bureaucratic and governmental corruption and failing economic conditions. Since the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, when Mrs. Gandhi's esteem was at its highest, India has been plagued by widespread drought and famine, coupled with the enormous blow its economy has suffered since oil prices were hiked in 1974. As a result, the price of food and other essential commodities...
...Minister Indira Gandhi temporarily suspended civil liberties to forestall an opposition campaign of civil disobedience. Although unrelated to Mohandas K. Gandhi, the secular saint of India who preached passive resistance as political strategy, Mrs. Gandhi is the only daughter of the Mahatma's colleague and political heir, Jawaharlal Nehru. She was only four years old when, in 1921, her father went to prison for the first time to protest British rule over the subcontinent, and she spent an intense, unhappy childhood prematurely immersed in the politics of rebellion. "I have no recollection of games, children's parties...
Demonstrating that she was "not merely [Nehru's] daughter but a person in her own right," Mrs. Gandhi introduced her own sweeping ten-point program for transforming India into a socialist democracy. After she nationalized 14 private banks, angry Congress Party elders expelled her. Mrs. Gandhi promptly formed her own New Congress Party and in September, 1970 she reduced, then eliminated the privileges and privy purses of maharajas-a relic of British Empire days that was then costing the government about $6 million a year...
...stricken state of Uttar Pradesh, 300 miles southeast of New Delhi. She won a landslide victory -183,000 votes to 71,000 for her opponent, socialist Raj Narain. Barely a month after the election, Narain, 58, an old and bitter foe of Mrs. Gandhi and her late father, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to court and charged that Mrs. Gandhi and her staff, in violation of India's equivalent of the U.S.'s Hatch Act, had allowed government officials to campaign for her and had spent more than the allowed maximum...
...delegate to the United Nations; of an apparent heart attack; in New Delhi. Son of a wealthy lawyer, Menon was an ascetic, acerbic, anticolonialist firebrand who lived in London and agitated against British rule in India for 28 years until independence came in 1947. His intimate friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, led to a series of high-level government posts. At the U.N. in the 1950s, Menon regularly scourged U.S. "imperialism," although he condoned Moscow's suppression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. As Defense Minister Menon's failure to prepare...