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...reason was ironic: many of the party's kingmakers, who had planned to oust her, had themselves been voted out of Parliament and were thus in a weaker position than Indira, who won her own constituency in Uttar Pradesh by a 3-to-1 margin. Most of the surviving leaders, especially the powerful state chiefs, rallied to Indira-though hardly for the best of reasons. They prefer a relatively weak Prime Minister, who will let them run their own affairs with a minimum of direction from New Delhi, to someone like Indira's main rival, former Finance Minister...
...they did do well in the troubled tropical state of Kerala, where a coalition of pro-Peking and pro-Moscow factions managed to win control of the state government. Elsewhere, however, the day did not go to the Communists, who, in fact, dropped from second to fourth place in Parliament...
Young Appeal. The biggest gainers were two young, aggressive parties. Into second place in Parliament (with 41 seats won at week's end) went the Swatantra Party, which was founded only eight years ago. By far India's most pro-West party, Swatantra stands for free enterprise, appeals to India's growing middle class and business interests. Third place went to the Jana Sangh Party, which has won 33 seats so far. A conservative Hindu party that wants to reassert India's historic greatness, the Jana Sangh championed a national ban on cow slaughter, campaigned...
...People snaked line after line of restless Red Guards, still in the capital despite earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication that China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is in danger of choking...
Under the new bill, which is certain to be enacted into law some time after Parliament convenes in the spring, non-Catholics will be allowed to hold public worship services for the first time since Franco took over in 1939. Still, many of the most liberal aspects of the earlier draft were cut out. Non-Catholic faiths will not be allowed to proselytize actively for new members, nor will they be permitted to run cultural, charitable or social associations. The part of the bill that would have guaranteed non-Catholics in the armed forces the right to refuse to participate...