Articles by G P D

March 3, 1979 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Socialism by One Country G P D THE inevitable has happened. Deng Xiaoping has moved his men to carry out the punitive action. Deng's language was never his strong point. He has now demonstrated that his actions can be as rough as his language. There was a time when political analysts used to speculate when and if the Chinese would enter the Vietnamese embroglio. It has happened now except that 'the American imperialists and their running dogs' were thrown out of Saigon a good four years ago. Remember that phrase of the 1960? Nobody uses such quaint and obsolete phrases any longer. The .socialists in Moscow do occasionally Italic of imperialism but usually avoid naming the Americans (see Brezhnev's report to the 25th Congress of the CPSU). The socialists in Peking think that Soviet social imperialism and its allies are the number one problem today.

been charged with plotting to assassinate Ne Win and his Cabinet and overthrow the government. One of the accused was an official of the BSPP. This was followed by the dismissal of two Cabinet Ministers in September and another in October. The dismissed ministers were rounded up, along with several members of the Central Committee and the Secretariat of the BSPP, "to remove the threat of challenge to President Ne Win's authority". Addressing an Extraordinary Party Congress on November 14, 1977, San Yu charged that a group of Central Committee members had formed a clique which had placed its self-interest above that of the Party and the State.

that all the power wielders cannot sit in Delhi and talk seriously about states' rights and responsibilities In a sense, the defective thinking on the future of the states is brought home to us by servitors elected to lead states like Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh by a Jan Sangh- BLD combine, and the casual way in which the anger of Janata MLAs about non-performance is dealt with by the patron saint of the servitors, Home Minister Charan Singh, And the Prime Minister is so comfortable in astrology and other aberrations that he too lets the drift continue. If they are waiting for God to intervene, then God help us. What they need to be told in no uncertain terms is that they were elected on an anti-Indira vote, and that they still have to win respect and influence.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS European Notes G P D IT is exactly five years since the famous Munich Olympics massacre took place. Once again, Germany seems to be visited by violence and terrorism. Last month, a banker from Frankfurt, Jurgen Ponto, was killed outside his large villa near Frankfurt. He was packing his things for a holiday in Latin America. Last week, Schleyer has been kidnapped. An enormous ransom has been demanded. A neutral middleman, a lawyer from Geneva who is chairman of the International Federation for Human Rights, has been appointed. One does not know what will come of this exercise. Violence is in the air. People are angrily and anxiously discussing what this terrorism means. The Red Army Fraction, as the kidnappers of Schleyer call themselves, is a very peculiar group. A Swiss woman seriously believed that it was being financed by the GDR and the Soviet Union, Perhaps the details of the RAF are not as important as the feeling that violence is here, and is here to stay.


INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Preaching Comes Easy G P D PRECEPTS are an important part of Brahmanical culture. They have a special fascination for the neo-Brah- mins of the subcontinent. Nothing thrills the hearts of our political leaders more than the possibility that they shall be able to 'teach' something to others. Now the Janata leaders have taken it upon themselves to teach the King of Nepal the importance of being a democrat. Having ridden the tide of anti -emergency sentiment they feel they are on top of the world. Their voices have acquired just that holiness which goes so well with Brahmanical preaching.