Wednesday, January 1", 1977
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Wednesday, January 1% 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three
India relaxes
politfical rule
NEW DELHI, India (AP)-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,
declaring her "unshakable faith in the power of the people,"
announced yesterday that parliamentary elections would take
place in March as part of a major relaxation of her 19-month-
old emergency rule.
"Let us go to the polls with the resolve to reaffirm the
power of the people and to uphold the fair name of India
as a land committed to the path of reconciliation, peace and
progress," Gandhi said in an eight-minute national broadcast.
THE ELECTIONS WILL BE THE FIRST since Gandhi
proclaimed a state of emergency June 26, 1975 following her
conviction on election fraud charges. She suspended civil lib-
erties, jailed opposition leaders and imposed press censorship,
and said the measures were needed to quell a "threat to
internal stability."
The governmept previously had won parliament's approval
to postpone elections until March 1978. They were originally
set for last March at the end of the regular five-year term
of the lower house of parliament.
Gandhi's surprise announcement came three hours after
the government freed her arch political foe, former Deputy
Prime Minister Morarji Desai, and L. K. Advani, leader of
the right-wing Hindui Nationalist Jana Sangh party. About a
dozen parliamentarians are still in jail, including Socialist leader
Raj Narain, sources said.
THE 80-YEAR-OLD DESAI, considered the most prominent
opposition politician in the country, had been imprisoned since
the emergency began. He said after Gandhi's broadcast that
the relatively short time left until the election "puts a hard-
ship on the opposition."
"But I am sure this sudden declaration of an election
will benefit not the prime minister but the nation, which is
the only important thing," Desai said.. "It is a test for the
people. I hope it will be a fair election."
In her speech, given first in Hindi and then in English,
Gandhi pledged that the emergency would be relaxed "to
permit all legitimate activity necessary for recognized parties
to put forth their points of view before the people."
THE PRIME MINISTER SAID there already had been a
"gradual easing" of emergency restrictions. She cited the re-
laxation of densorship on the domestic press and the release
of opposition leaders and members.
,t the same time, the 59-year-old prime minister warned
that she would not tolerate any disruption.
"May I remind you that the emergency was proclaimed
because the nation was far from normal," she said. "Now
that it is being nursed to health, we must ensure that there
is no relapse."
THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST served, in effect,
as her first campaign speech on behalf of the ruling Con-
gress party.
Gandhi boasted of an improved economy, containment of
rampaging inflation, increased industrial production, record food
grain stocks, and new social programs to eliminate dowries and
control population, all of which she linked to her emergency
rule.
"In spite of criticism, there is a new respect for our
country abroad," she said.
OPPOSITION SOURCES SAID THEY WOULD attack not
only Gandhi's decision to impose the emergency but measures
adopted by parliament since then, including a constitutional
amendment increasing executive branch powers and a press
censorship bill.
Gandhi proclaimed the emergency two weeks after she was
found guilty of misusing the services of government officials
in her own parliamentary election campaign in 1971. Major
opposition parties demanded her resignation, but the supreme
court overturned her conviction in November 1975 after the
laws under which she was found guilty were rewritten retro-
actively.
Asoka Mehta, president of an opposition Congress party,
said the election announcement would spur a merger, now set
for early March, of major non-Communist opposition parties
into a single party. In past elections, the Congress won most
of its seats through pluralities while opposition parties split
the majority of votes in nearly all districts.
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Rockefeller bids farewell
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice
President Nelson Rockefeller
bade farewell to the Senate yes-
terday, saying he never wanted
his job but took it to help out'
during the Watergate turmoil.
"I came to'this post, to which
I had never -aspired and had,
indeed foresworn,' because of
the constitutional crisis facing
the country," he said.
"AS I LEAVE this office, I
share with you and a grateful
nation the profound satisfaction
that ourtcountry has returned
secure to its regular elective
procedures of representative,
government."
Rockefeller, 68, who succeed-I
ed Gerald Ford as vice presi-
dent when Richard Nixon re-
signed as president, declared
that "the ship of state is on
course again and well prepared
for the new captain and crew."
Sitting in the presiding offi-
cer's chair, Rockefeller told an
attentive Senate audience: "For
me, these past twoaunusual
years, in all candor, cannot be
said to have sorely tried either
my talents or my stamina."
HE DREW LAUGHTER when
he said, "I bequeath to ny suc-
cessor two helpful mottos of this
office of higfi calling. First,
'They also serve who merely sit
and wait; and second, 'Wait
and want not.' ",
Although Rockefeller's consti-
ttional role as vice president
is to preside over' the Senate,
he cannot speak to the Senate
unless invited to do so. Suchl
an invitation was extended by
the Senate by an unanimous
vote.
Rockefeller has said he now
plans to withdraw from active
involvement in the Republican
party.
A HALF-FILLED SENATE,
with mostly Republicans pre-
sent, gave the vice president
a one-minute standing ovation,
and then senators lauded his
record.
Senate Democratic Leader
Robert Byrd said Rockefeller
gave "genuine stability to the
country when stability was des-
perately needed."
Senate Republican Leader
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Howard Baker said "few of our
nation's leaders have had the
difficulty of coming to office at
such trying times."
SEN. JACOB JAVITS, (R-N.Y.)
called the four-term New York
governor a "spirited man" who
has a productive life ahead of
him.
"We are by no means laying
him to rest today," he said.
Sen. Charles Percy, (R-Ill.)
said Rockefeller "spoke out for
what he believed in" and "gave
of himself to help us all."
When Percy spoke beyond his
five-minute limit, Rockefeller
performed one of his last duties
by firmly interrupting him, tell-
ing he had exceeded his time.
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A new slant
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