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Curle is tight-lipped on the negotiations between Ayub Khan and Shastri. When he was contacted--by the British and American Quakers with the "knowledge and consent" of the fighting governments, the U.N. and the State Department--the guns were silent, but barely so. Apparently one of his key objectives was simply to ease tensions. "We were able perhaps to convey expression of opinion which helped understanding a little," he says cautiously. Since there were a whole series of more formal mediation efforts in the works, Curle hesitates to claim credit for any specified accords. He feels, though, that...
Ever since last month's general elections in which India's ruling Congress Party suffered startling setbacks, the race has been on for the Prime Minister's job. The contestants: Indira Gandhi, who has held the position since the death of Lai Bahadur Shastri 14 months ago, and Morarji Desai, 71, the flinty former Finance Minister who was also Indira's sole rival in the earlier selection. Last week, bowing to pressures for party unity, Desai withdrew from the race, thus virtually assuring Indira's election this week by the Congress Party to a full...
...been the rout of its top leadership. Seven members of Mrs. Gandhi's cabinet at the Center have been defeated. Among them is S.K. Patil, the tough political boss of Bombay and a member of the "Syndicate" that had effected, in 1964, the unanimous choice of Lal Bahadur Shastri as Nehru's successor and, in 1966, the election of Mrs. Gandhi as Shastri's successor. The two other leading lights of the "Syndicate," Mr. Kamaraj and Atulya Ghosh of West Bengal, have both been defeated. So have been the Presidents of Congress party organizations in 6 states and the Chief...
...which no amount of five-year plans and doses of bureaucratic management have managed to get off dead center. Not all the blame rightfully belongs to Indira: India, especially during a drought, is an almost ungovernable country. Yet in the 13 months since she succeeded the late Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira seldom gave the impression that she had grasped the levers of power...
Indira has had her own share of troubles since she succeeded the late Lai Bahadur Shastri one year ago. Her attempts to rejuvenate the country's stag nating economy by devaluating the overpriced rupee brought loud screams of protest from most of the nation's politicians. Though she has so far saved India from widespread famine by arranging for special shipments of U.S. grain, many Indian leftists denounced her for relying too heavily on the Americans for help. Her attempts to free the country from crippling state controls have brought charges that she is abandoning the socialism...