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...level, it certainly had. Peking in splenetic fury denounced the peace offensive as a "trick," a "hoax," and "the greatest show on earth," featuring "freaks and monsters," meaning, presumably, the U.S. envoys. But America's allies and much of the nonaligned world clearly were impressed. Indian Prime Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin-yo aru hikeshi...
Last week, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri made the first change in his Cabinet since he took office 18 months ago. It was no minor matter. Out went T. T. (for Tiruvallur Thattai) Krishnamachari, 66, Shastri's strong-willed Minister of Finance...
Technically, T.T.K. quit. In fact, he was sacked for possessing a personality incompatible with those of Shastri and his other ministers. A brilliant, impatient holdover from Nehru's Cabinet, Krishnamachari ran the country's finances as a one-man show, imposed harsh restrictions on the foreign firms in India, and conducted a running fight with the World Bank, which criticized his policies as too restrictive. Contemptuous of his colleagues, he called one minister a "constipated cockroach," advised another to return to teaching, and held back on allocations of foreign exchange for much needed fertilizer largely out of dislike...
Nanda, he explained, was not considered for Prime Minister at the time of Nehru's death because Indian Congress Party members distrusted his close association with V.K. Krishna Mennon, but during Shastri's one-and-a half years in office, Nanda had grown closer to party leaders...
According to the Associated Press, Shastri had a history of heart trouble and suffered a serious stroke in 1959. In June, 1964, only 18 days after assuming the office of prime minister, he suffered what is believed to have been a mild stroke...