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...election of a successor from the party at large, rather than by L.D.P. Diet members. Without such concessions, Miki could well refuse to resign since he retains considerable support. In that case he might yet survive as Premier or at least remain, in his fashion, a powerful elder statesman...
...filled with fawning accounts of national events, flattering pictures of Gandhi and her ambitious son Sanjay-and, not coincidentally, lucrative government advertising. But two tough, prominent publishers of English-language dailies-Ramnath Goenka of the 44-year-old Express and C.R. Irani of the 100-year-old Statesman-are fighting on with a stubbornness befitting Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Statesman has long been one of India's most respected dailies. It exposed British government cover-ups of the 1942 Bengal famine and was the first to report the border skirmishes that led to the 1962 war with China. With pugnacious Irani as its managing director, the Statesman also criticized Gandhi's emergency measures. In return, the government has confiscated Irani's passport, forced the paper to miss several editions through censorship delays and tried to impound one of the Statesman's presses...
...pack his board with Gandhi nominees. Outside the courts, both publishers have had to talk suppliers into risking government retaliation by continuing to do business with them. In addition, Irani has had to persuade stockholders to resist selling out to Gandhi supporters. Irani himself has bought up thousands of Statesman shares and distributed them to loyal staff members...
Meanwhile, each paper is publishing only eight pages a day (down from a typical 14), and both are losing money. Irani believes his paper can continue publishing for another year or so. Says he: "The Statesman has not been around for a hundred years to sell out now to a Delhi Mafia." Goenka, however, is trying to sell off some of his other business properties to keep the Express group alive, and the papers could fold at any time. "We are carrying on, how long we don't know," says a Goenka associate. "They can't take...