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...gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...
...party workers beat drums, danced in the streets and showered her with marigolds, Mrs. Gandhi appeared on the lawn of her modest bungalow in New Delhi gowned in a gay red and yellow sari. "I am not the least surprised," she told newsmen, though many observers had feared that her decision to hold elections a full year ahead of schedule was a dangerous gamble. Those who predicted her defeat, she suggested, might "eat crow." In truth, the victory was far beyond the expectations of even her most optimistic advisers. Nobody expected Indira to be defeated, but some figured that...
...TALL, beautiful woman stands before you. With a spot of rouge upon her olive-skinned forehead, she wears a long, pink sari that swirls to her toes. A wreath of many-colored roses envelops her, and a deep-blue pheasant nestles at her feet. Too bad: the woman and her creature are merely a painting on a wall...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and red cardigan she wore when she left home. She was near collapse: "I have lived on rolls and coffee for a week," she said. "I just want to go to bed and sleep...
...support, about 220 of the Congress Party's 282 M.P.s gathered in the high-domed Central Hall of the Parliament building. A slogan greeted her: "A new light has dawned-Indira has come." In response to the thunderous welcoming ovation, Indira, who wore a brown and red sari, folded her hands in the prayer-like Indian gesture of narnaste. She pledged to "rededicate myself, to rally the people to the cause of socialism and democracy and to rejuvenate the Congress." "The Congress Party has passed through many crises," added Indira. "We shall pass through this crisis also...