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...turmoil began with the resignation of Prime Minister Charan Singh, 76, only 15 minutes before a vote of confidence in the lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, that would have sent his 24-day-old coalition government down to certain defeat. In line for the job, or so he thought, was Ram, also official leader of the opposition. But India's President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy bypassed Ram and heeded the advice of outgoing Charan Singh to dissolve the Lok Sabha and call new national elections. He appointed Charan Singh as head of a caretaker government until elections...
Reddy's decision was furiously challenged on the constitutional ground that as Prime Minister, Charan Singh had never faced a vote in Parliament. For that reason, Charan Singh's opponents assert, the President was not bound, in the British tradition, to accept his advice. A disappointed Ram declared, "The country will not excuse the President for his undemocratic dissolution of the Lok Sabha." Certainly there was the danger that the Untouchables would not. In ignoring Ram, the President had offended millions of harijans, who suffer the humiliation of daily discrimination and harassment...
...issue, and successive governments behaved as though time and good intentions would somehow make it go away. Says a ranking civil servant: "I think the difference between the U.S. and here is that in America the Government has been willing to do something more than pass laws. Here, once Parliament had passed the Race Relations Act, it then treated it as a bed to sleep...
...annually. Also, those who are admitted would have to prove they can support themselves without aid while looking for jobs. The aim is a virtual halt in nonwhite immigration. Vows a senior Whitehall official: "We shall see the end of the immigration era within the lifetime of the present Parliament...
DIED. John Diefenbaker, 83, "Mr. Conservative," the flamboyant prairie lawyer who was Canada's Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 and one of its most outspoken Members of Parliament for almost four decades; in Ottawa. Reared in the northlands of Saskatchewan, Diefenbaker won fame as a crack trial lawyer, before winning a long sought seat in the House of Commons in 1940. As Prime Minister he urged increased independence from the U.S., to be accomplished largely through the development of Canada's natural resources and the Arctic north. Though an unwavering antiCommunist, he detested McCarthyism and promoted trade...