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Beyond Expectation. Many did not know how to write their names. But most seemed to know their minds, and for an astonishing number that meant a vote for Indira Gandhi, 53, the handsome daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru who has run India for the past five years. At week's end, it was clear that an overwhelming majority of India's voters had put aside traditional caste, religious and language allegiances to give Mrs. Gandhi a firm mandate to lead the world's second most populous nation for another five years. With 518 elective seats at stake...
Confronting the voters will be the most crucial choice since India won independence 23 years ago. On one side is Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 53, imperious daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru. Indira wants "a fresh mandate" for her New Congress Party so that she may pursue her populist policies, which so far have not gone very far toward solving India's multitudinous problems. Squared off against Indira is one of the oddest political alliances ever hatched. The four-party coalition, formed in January, consists of the right-wing, free-enterprise Swatantra Party; the Hindi-speaking, anti-Moslem Jana...
...months, many of her political aides have been urging her to wait until 1972, when her full five-year term expires, before calling new parliamentary elections. Last week, when she returned from a visit to Indian troops who guard the icy wastes of Ladakh in the Himalayas, Jawaharlal Nehru's strong-willed daughter announced that she was dissolving parliament immediately and scheduling elections for early March. The political campaign that promises to be the most fiercely fought in India's 25 years of independence will be decided by the largest electorate ever to participate in free elections anywhere...
...earned $235,000 in 1969, favors a wardrobe of rich brocades befitting a courtier at Versailles. Returning from a suspension last year, he fondly recalls how he walked into the jockeys' room. "I wore a bright orange suit. The pants had bell-bottoms and the jacket was a Nehru with no sleeves so you could see the yellow shirt I was wearing. I had a beard, and I thought I looked real good. When the other jocks saw me, they called me the Puerto Rican hippie. They say, 'You're too much...
...some of the U.N.'s own 230-man guard force used the occasion to stage a "sick-out" in support of wage demands). In 1960, the 34 world leaders who showed up for the U.N.'s 15th anniversary included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and Fidel Castro...