Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesc cty March 23, 1 977' Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, March 23, 1977 PASSPORT PHOTOS 3 prints each Of poses for $7.50 SAME DA'Y SERVICE In Before 10-Out at 4:30 FULL COLOR-NOT POLAROID. Your nega- tives are included. No appointment necessary. Easy driving & parking. 3180 PACKARD, 1 bik. east of Platt 973-0770 1I Struggle on f or vacant post, (Continued from Page 1) hands up in the traditional In- With returns from last week- dian greeting as she was driveni end's general election nearly' from Jatti's residence.1 complete, Gandhi's successful,! One of Gandhi's last acts be- foes, Morarji Desai and Jagji- fore her resignation was to re- van Ram, claimed their new voke the press censorship order government would have a ma-! promulgated after the national; jority of at least 326 seats in the state of emergency was de- lower house of Parliament. d Glared in June 1975. The state of A spokesman for Desai's Ja-! emergency was ended Monday nata People's party said its shortly after the announcement members in the new Parliament j that Gandhi had lost her seat in and those of Ram's Congress for Parliament. Democracy would meet tomor- A Janata party spokespersonj row to elect a leader who would said the new government's first become prime minister. task would be to dismantle the Despite the humiliating defeat authoritarian system set tip dur- she and her Congress party suf- ing the emergency, and partic- fered in the general election, ularly the measures Gandhi Gandhi smiled broadly at re- pushed through Parliament to porters and held her clasped weaken the independence andI .4l THURSDAY, MARCH 24 Dr. Rudi Paul Lindner Professor of History, Tufts University1 "CURRENT RESEARCH ON NOMADS AND OTTOMANS" 4:00 P.M., EAST LECTURE RM., 3RD FLOOR RACKHAMt Or for Near Eastern and North African StudiesC and Department of History IF 111 MIORF power of the judiciary to review told reporters who asked wheth- the actions of Parliament and er he would accept the office: the nrimp minhniser! Ih0,,p navopr chrkraA ronnmot.- eMpe PICminister. The U.S. State Department said yesterday that it expected improved relations with India as the result of its "full return to the democratic path." Desai, the 81-year-old chair- man of the Janata party, is ex- pected to win the post that Gandhi leaves. But Ram, 68, i nave never si re respns I bility which the country wanted me to shoulder." Ram is a former second-in- command of Gandhi's Congress party. Desai is a former deputy. prime minister and finance min- ister who was fired by Gandhi in 1969.1 PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS I AND 11R. WILLIAM LAAST ASSOC. PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR IN GHANA ?03 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 INTERNATIONAL CENTER LOUNGE roP WER 'U'students, Profs surprised bydefeat (Continued from Page 1) pro-west. bunch of clowns. I would I "Actually," said Nath, "the much rather have had her win government is really in the by a very small majority, so hands of the bureaucrats, and she would have learned a les- politics doesn't have that much son, but still be kept in office. to do with it. What we're most I think she was doing a pretty likely to see is a liberalization good job." of the press, and a new respon- Another engineering gradu- siveness to the people from the ate student, Mukesh Sanghai, leaders. India's people are not also expressed concern. "I am politically naive in any way, scared because they have a two and the leaders know that they thirds majority." (As of last will have to produce for them." night, the opposition parties Both Chendke and Sanghai were still about ten seats short said that they plan to return to of the two thirds mark, but over India afteretheyiare finished thirty seats had not yet been with their educations, and thef decided.) "They could pass election results - no matterI things just to suit themselves, which way they had gone - just like the Congress party did would not have affected those when they had the two thirds plans. majority after the last elec- "I'm really not involved in tion." politics at all," said Chendke. Speculation about the future Nath was more enthusiastic, was as mixed as reaction to the though. "When I was in New election results were.I Delhi last summer, I felt un- PARK FEELS that there will comfortable talking about poli- be some changes made, main- tics, even with close friends. ly because the two year-old People said they were happy, "emergency" has now been lift- but everywhere I went I felt ed, and an open society has this undercurrent of discontent. been restored. Both Park and This (the election) makes me Nath felt that the new ruling very happy, and now I want coalition would be much more very much to go back." The Program in American Culture will sponsor a mini-course entitled "The History of Ethnic Groups in Detroit, 1850-1930," to meet Wednesdays and Fridays, from 12-1 in Room 1437 Mason Hall beginning Wed., March 23. Interested students may register on a drop/add form through the Program Office, 164 LSA Bldg. More information is posted in the Program Office as well os f at Checkpoint The course will be offered by PROFESSOR } OLIVIER ZUNZ, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology. Long road to end of Gandhi regime A News Analysis NEW DELHI, India W) - The first sparks of the voter rebellion that drove Indira Gandhi's government from power were struck on a hot, dusty afternoon last April at a spot called Turkman Gate. There in the walled city of Old Delhi hundreds of slum- dwellers, enraged over heavy-handed government programs for slum clearance and family planning, clashed with po- lice on April 19 in the first significant resistance to Ghand- hi's authoritarian experiment. When the dust had settled that afternoon and the tear gas had blown away, 12 Indians were dead, dozens blood- ied and India's silent poor had been kindled into a people's rebellion. WHAT HAPPENED at Turkman Gate was, in retrospect, only the first of several warnings that the silence of India"s poor should not be mistaken for endorsement of the way some local officials exercised the unfettered authority ac- corded them under India"s national emergency. The antigovernment sentiment culminated in last week- end's general elections. On the basis of nearly complete returns Gandhi's opponents claimed they would have a ma- jority of at least 126 seats in the lower house of Parliament. After last April's episode at Turkman Gate, antigovern- ment feeling had boiled to the surface in other regions. ON AUG. 2, hundreds of demonstrators protesting alleged incidents of forced sterilization set fire to a family plan- ning station in the village of Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh State. The state is India's most populous and was a target of the government's sterilization drive. Then on Oct. 18, a town in the same region. Muzaffar- nagar, experienced the worst known violence of India"s 21 months under emergency rule. Moslems in Muzaffarnagar,. a center for sugar and lum- ber production, became enraged when local police allegedly tried to haul off more than a dozen of their neighbors for sterilization operations. Hundreds of Moslems protested in front of the district magistrate's house, and then re- treated to a neighborhood called the Umar Khan Market. In the evening, when the crowd refused to disperse,, po- lice opened fire on the demonstrators, according to Moslem leaders. At least 25 protesters were killed. Dozens were wounded. The district magistrate was later transferred elsewhere. The government's response apparently tended to make matters worse. The Information Ministry kept turning out a steady stream of statements about the family planning program's popularity, while other ministries denied any disturbances had ever taken place. But villagers knew to the contrary, and as a result the government and the ruling Congress party lost virtually all credibility in the Indian countryside, where most of the na- tion's 620 million people live. After press censorship was lifted and the election cam- paign began two months ago, it became apparent just how broad and deep the public's antigovernment feeling actually was. GANDHI AND government ministers started acknowl- edging "excesses" in the family planning program and promising investigations of those local officials they alleged were responsible. In the end, though. India's voters were in no mood to for- get Turkman Gate, Khatauli, Muzaffarpagar and the Other incidents where their neighbors had openly rebelled against the government. With only a few exceptions, all the goernment ministers affiliated with the emergency were voted out of office. "You know what happened?" said one Indian journalist as he watched a jubilant victory procession by the new Janata party. "We all underestimated our people." Electoral Collegeo 3 PM - 5 PM The Sperry Topsider is a Genuine hand-crafted moccasin, mounted on an anti-slip yachting .ole. In Dark Brown Elk dyed cowhide. Narrow and Medium in Men's sizes 6 to 13 and Ladies' sizes 5 to 10. $33.00 MAST'S SHOES 619 E. LIBERTY 217 S. MAIN -0M - ~CAt r"+ "\u ."' . .. f e 1 won" r i 1 MICHIGAN ADVERTISING WORKS is workinq for cheap and effective advertising on the U of M campus. We are now addinq to our services a POSTER-PLASTERING ROUTE to beqin on Monday 21 March 77. 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