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...Arrogant and impatient, Sanjay had an undeniable knack for getting things done; he started an automobile factory, though the plant never got much beyond the prototype stage. He helped run the country during the 1975-77 state of emergency, which his mother had declared in order to control civil unrest and to strengthen her own political position, but was blamed for some of the emergency's worst excesses. Nevertheless, from about 1975 Indira was clearly grooming Sanjay as her successor. Neither mother nor son ever said explicitly that only a Nehru was capable of ruling India, but both obviously believed...
...Thailand's Industrial Finance Corp.: "Commodity prices are really miserable." Even so, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have managed to maintain respectable growth rates of 4% or more. The only serious trouble spot is the Philippines, where economic mismanagement by the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos and continuing political unrest in the wake of last year's assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino have plunged the country into a deep recession...
...others have had their requests for sanctuary turned down by the U.S. and Dutch governments. Britain last week asked them to leave the consulate, but insists that they may remain if they wish. Meanwhile, South Africa put the official death toll at 80 in the past two months of unrest in black townships. The government also announced that regular army units will continue to play "a greater supporting role" in troubled areas...
...Building in New York City, nine of TIME'S editors, correspondents and writers assembled for breakfast and a conversation with Mexico's Foreign Minister, Bernardo Sepulveda Amor. For more than an hour, Sepulveda answered questions about his country's relations with the U.S., and about the unrest in Central America. By the time the last coffees were finished, the TIME hosts had received yet another reminder that, as Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan says, "Leaders and their informal conversations are usually much more interesting than their official statements...
...demanded stringent austerity measures by Argentina in return for its help, chiefly a reduction in public spending. But President Raul Alfonsin, installed in December after eight years of military rule, feared that too much austerity would cause civil unrest, possibly toppling his fragile democratic regime. The government drafted a letter of intent in June in which it said it would try to tighten its belt, but that was not enough for the IMF, which wanted more concrete austerity plans. It rejected Argentina's as inconsistent and unworkable...