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- <text id=91TT1247>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: World Notes:India
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- INDIA
- In Search of Stability
- </hdr><body>
- <p> With no family scion available to take up the mantle of Rajiv
- Gandhi, India's Congress Party last week did what any other
- faction-riven political bureaucracy would have done: fudge.
- After a two-hour meeting, party leaders appointed P.V.
- Narasimha Rao, 69, as president. Although Rao boasts an
- impressive resume--he is a poet, linguist and former Foreign
- Minister--he was selected because, according to colleagues,
- he is respected by everyone but feared by no one.
- </p>
- <p> The compromise choice postpones what is expected to be a
- fierce fight among younger politicians for the prize of Prime
- Minister. That job will be filled by the party's members of
- parliament after national elections, which were interrupted by
- Gandhi's murder, are completed next week. If Congress does not
- win at the polls, party strategists hope to team up with smaller
- factions on the left to deny power to the rising and divisive
- Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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