Word: shastri
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...Gandhi had a scheme of her own. She intended to use Nanda's ouster as an opportunity to reshuffle the Cabinet, which she had inherited almost intact from Lai Bahadur Shastri and had so far been unable to alter. Her plan was to give the Home Ministry to able Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan and install other favorites in the finance and commerce slots...
...diverse religions, India has managed to establish a firm Democracy against all the Western prerequisites for freedom, Sivasithamparam said. "In the beginning there were skeptics who insisted that our Democratic government was held together by a charismatic leader, Ghandi, but India has proved time and again with Nehru, Shastri, and Mrs. Ghandi that it will continue to find great leaders a-plenty," he noted...
...that it was "just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over to Arthur Schlesinger Jr." Geyelin alludes to Johnson's scorching private appraisals of De Gaulle, Pearson, Shastri, Ayub Khan, U Thant. He is more explicit about the President's sentiments toward the Organization of American States; using dashes in place of a four-letter word, Geyelin quotes L.B.J. as saying, "The OAS couldn't pour - - out of a boot if instructions were written on the heel...
...late, however, things have begun to change. In his last months as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri took a few steps toward a freer economy. The trend has built up steam under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...dared. Her words were more than mere defiance of party snipers. Most political experts agreed that her fiery speech was the clearest indication yet that she intends to continue as Prime Minister after next February's general election. When she was selected last January to succeed Lai Bahadur Shastri, some members of the Congress Party supported her on the theory that she would be the best national figure to lead the party into the elections. After that, they reckoned, she could be shelved in favor of another candidate...