Word: shastri
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...choice rested with the top people of the Congress Party. Normally, that would mean the "syndicate," the handful of political bosses who have recently dominated the party, and who stage-managed Shastri's smooth ascension to power. This time the kingmakers were divided. The most prominent of them all, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, had angered the others by holding on to his post as party president for a second term. Without so much as a bow to him, the remaining syndicate members settled on Nanda as their candidate...
...Kamaraj, a tough, old-line politician, who controls Madras state; he is not above putting the arm on businessmen and just about everybody else in sight to fill the party's coffers. He has ruled himself out for national office, because he speaks only Tamil. On the news of Shastri's death, he had flown from his home in the south to Delhi, muttering: "What to do? Unity! Indira?" In Delhi he kept the thought to himself and did his best to find a candidate with the widest support. Neither the syndicate nor Kamaraj wanted the conservative Desai...
Jumna. Then she will return to Delhi, where she and her Cabinet will be sworn into office. The ministerial line up will probably remain much the same as it was under Shastri; no shakeups are likely to occur until after next year's national elections...
This week Indira will first travel to Allahabad, where the ashes of Lal Bahadur Shastri will be strewn on the mingling waters of the Ganges...
...Shastri sent Food Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam to Washington to discuss emergency help and got a quick assurance of extra consignments. U.S. experts were in India last week, investigating how the limited port facilities could handle the added cargoes. But the long-term agreement will probably remain one of Indira's most urgent missions...