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Five thousand fervent admirers turned up at the airport in Maharashtra state to greet Mrs. Gandhi en route to Bhave's ashram. Three times her cavalcade halted as she delivered her first political speeches since March. She warned that Prime Minister Morarji Desai's government could not deliver on its promise to reduce unemployment and poverty in a decade. "The Congress has a program to help the poor and the weak," she cried. "The country cannot make progress until their economic conditions improve...
Improvement still seems distant. Under Mrs. Gandhi, Indian industry was mired in deep recession-largely because of impenetrable tangles of red tape. Desai's government did, however, inherit over $4 billion in foreign reserves and record wheat stockpiles. But the Janata regime is hamstrung by internal wrangling. Squabbles over patronage have left many ministerial posts vacant. "I have no time for policymaking because I have no help," moans a minister. One result is that Desai's first budget virtually duplicates that of the former Congress government. Inflation (now 2% a month) and shortages of key commodities (edible...
...Indeed, Desai's main achievement has been lifting the censorship imposed by Mrs. Gandhi's decrees. Unfettered, the press has egged on the new government's campaign against Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay and three of his emergency-era cronies -the so-called caucus of four. Facing two indictments for crimes during his mother's rule (the latest charge: destroying a satirical film about political sycophants), Sanjay is being investigated by a special judicial commission. Another panel probing "excesses" by Sanjay and others during the emergency has already received more than 40,000 complaints. Sanjay...
Sanjay's vulnerability and Desai's wobbly government combined to inspire Mrs. Gandhi's reemergence. How she will exploit her residue of popularity remains to be seen. But last week's adulation clearly revived her legendary hauteur. When reporters asked her if she felt stronger after her meditations, she replied coolly, "I was strong already...
...retaliation, APEX organized a picket outside the plant. For months Mrs. Desai and a handful of other dismissed employees patrolled in saris outside the gates of Grunwick as policemen eyed them warily. Unable to meet with Ward, APEX enlisted the aid of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), an agency set up by the government's 1975 Employment Protection...