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- <text id=91TT0544>
- <title>
- Mar. 18, 1991: World Notes:India
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 18, 1991 A Moment To Savor
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- World Notes
- INDIA
- Revolving Doors
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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