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Chief problem for India's nuclear advocates, of course, is their nation's deep emotional attachment to the principles of nonviolence, as practiced by Gandhi and internationally canonized by the late Jawaharlal Nehru. In a speech to students last week, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Nehru's successor, loyally insisted: "We cannot change our conviction because of China's action...
Indian Premier Shastri made the week's most sensible speech, among other things chiding the Africans for their own racial discrimination against Indians, pointedly rebutting Sukarno by insisting that "our policy must not be confrontation but cooperation," causing a stir by suggesting that the conference send a mission to Red China urging them not to test their nuclear bomb. The delegates quickly ducked that idea, but also resisted the more incendiary language of Sukarno & Co. The conference painfully put together a sweeping final communiqué damning "neo-imperialism," predictably citing South Africa and Angola, but preposterously including even Puerto...
Bare Feet. Shastri, who had spent most of the 2½-hour flight with his bare feet propped up on a metal dispatch case as he perused official papers, landed almost on the run. After brief airport ceremonies, he dashed off to a locomotive factory to ask the workers to ignore the general strike and keep the factory open, "whatever happens." Their loudly chorused reply: "It will be kept open...
...flat, reedy voice, the little Premier told the cheering crowd that this month's harvest and massive new U.S. grain shipments would end the worst part of the food crisis within four weeks. Aware that accepting such increased aid from the U.S. had exposed him to leftist criticism, Shastri hotly insisted that he was remaining on the path of the late beloved Jawaharlal Nehru - whose "nonaligned" posture did not prevent him from taking healthy doses of help from the West. As for his Communist attackers, he said they think "in terms of destruction and not construction" and have...
...Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan stood up in Parliament last week to announce details of a new $210 million arms deal with Moscow for three squadrons of MIG-21 supersonic jet fighters, plus an assortment of other military hardware and help in building a complete MIG assembly plant. And Shastri himself was preparing to leave the Indian subcontinent for the first time in his life, to fly to Cairo for next week's meeting of the nonaligned bloc in which Nehru had been such a towering figure...