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...rest of the party. Faced with the new position of their senior partners in the coalition, the Socialists had no practical alternative except to agree to a compromise solution. Both parties wanted to get the law passed before September's national elections in order to prevent the rightist National Democrats, who favor an end to war crime trials, from making a campaign issue...
About the only thing on which Patil and Menon agree is that the Congress Party is fatally sick and will most likely come apart in the national elections scheduled for 1972. Patil sees himself as a "ladder" between the Congress Party and such rightist groupings as the Swatantra and the Jana Sangh. He also hopes to make fruitful contact with the Praja Socialists, who broke away from the Congress Party but have never joined the leftist front because they hate Communists as much as Patil does...
...majority in the party, then the rest of us must walk out," he says. "If the democrats are in the majority, then the others must walk out or be kicked out." Menon holds much the same view: "Who will fill the gap in New Delhi? A rightist coalition or a unity of the left?" If the old antagonists are correct, the years ahead could well be the noisiest as well as the most divisive since Indian independence...
Revolution in Liberty. Frei was quick to belittle rightist gains, claiming that the National Party's one-fifth of the vote merely reflected the normal but limited strength of right-wing causes the world over. Still, there was no denying that thousands of Chileans had rebuffed his "Democratic left." While the capable and well-intentioned Frei has been able to push through some agrarian and economic reforms, his campaign slogan of 1964, "Revolution in Liberty," never really caught...
...important, the Christian Democrats will now have to find allies for the bigger stakes, the presidential race next year. The most likely seem to be the centrists of the Radical Party, who polled 13% of the vote last week. What will make such maneuvering doubly interesting is that the rightist National Party, its presidential hopes inspired by last week's gains, will probably court the Radicals for the same purpose...