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Back with the rain came Premier Lai Bahadur Shastri, 59, looking none the worse for his apparently mild heart attack. Bustling in and out of his office, he paid two long visits to President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, presided over a lengthy cabinet meeting, tartly denied that he had been totally incapacitated while ill, insisted that he had worked seven hours a day at home during the later stages of his convalescence...
...letter, which referred to a Newsweek cover story on Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, predicted the deterioration of U.S. Indian relations...
...statement released Wednesday, Galbraith said: "I count Mr. Shastri a good and most distinguished friend. Let me say to make the record wholly clear, that Mr. Shastri is a man of strong character and great good sense with whom we will have very good relations indeed...
...Ramachandran in the first international Seminar panel discussion. "India after Nehru", said that although it may not be possible for Prime Minister Shastri to rise up to Nehru's personal level of statesmanship, the Party is trying to form a collective leadership to equal their former leader's strength...
Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, assistant editor of The Statesman, suggested that the existing power split between the traditionalists and Anglo-Indians may diminish the influence of Nehru's successor. Because Shastri embraces Indian tradition, he is not unanimously supported by the rest of the government and party. Presently, the stronger influence upon the Indian people decidedly is Western, rather than traditional: to be Westernized is a status symbol...