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- WORLD, Page 61World NotesINDIARevolving Doors
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- Ever since elections in 1989 produced no clear parliamentary
- majority, the world's largest democracy has been vying for the
- title of most unmanageable. Last week India's third Prime
- Minister in two years, Chandrashekhar, resigned, annulling his
- minority government's four-month marriage of convenience with
- former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's dominant Congress Party.
- Immediate cause of the downfall: accusations that
- Chandrashekhar allies set spies on Gandhi.
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- The latest row culminates an ongoing feud between the two
- men. Among other things, Gandhi has objected to
- Chandrashekhar's efforts to open talks with insurgents in
- Punjab and Kashmir, his fiscal-austerity proposals and his
- decision to let U.S. warplanes bound for the Persian Gulf
- refuel in India.
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