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...Gandhi herself spent a five-day working holiday in Kashmir, talking politics with Sheik Abdullah, chief minister of the state, and visiting Indian troops in the border areas opposite China and Pakistan. Government officials, who had been stung by previous criticism from Washington, were clearly pleased by Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan's talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Ford's remark. "We will welcome him here," said Mrs. Gandhi, "and he can see for himself...
...Editor Stung. One Jesuit stung by Lyons' defection is a fellow conservative, Father Kenneth Baker, editor of the Homiletic. Last week confusion reigned as Baker quit and killed the October edition just as it was about to go to press. Said he: "With his going off and leaving like this, it doesn't make any sense for me to continue...
...verdict stung. The very next day, Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party lost the Gujarat state elections. The Prime Minister had stumped the state with a vengeance, and had put her personal prestige on the line. At that point, she reportedly wanted to hand over power to Defense Minister Swaran Singh until the Supreme Court could hear her appeal of the Allahabad ruling. But a majority of Congress leaders insisted on Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram as Interim Prime Minister. Rather than risk a party quarrel, Mrs. Gandhi decided to stay on. Last week she was again rebuffed when a Supreme...
...three, four or five years before they'd return." In Lowndes County, Ga., Agent George Kessler reports that farmers this year have begun to abandon pastures to protect their animals from the ants and that "children are having to play inside at some kindergartens to avoid being stung." If the Agriculture Department could concentrate its sprayings, they imply, the ants would not only be controlled but eradicated...
Israelis complained that Sadat was being less than beneficent in each case-he tried to hide the fact for instance that he was getting back 112 Egyptians held in Israeli prisons in exchange for the bodies-but they were nevertheless stung by the implications of his strategy. More than that, they were still seething that the special relationship between Jerusalem and Washington had been clouded by public charges on President Ford's part and private accusations from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that it was Israel rather than Egypt that had deadlocked Kissinger's step-by-step peacemaking...