MRS. GANDHI, EASING CRISIS RULE, DECIDES ON MARCH ELECTION; KEY OPPOSITION FIGURE IS FREED Plan for Voting a Surprise Because Regime Had Obtained Approval to Delay It Till Next Year MRS. GANDHI DECIDES ON A MARCH ELECTION
Date: 19 January 1977
Indian Prime Min Indira Gandhi announces beginning of major relaxation of 19-mo-old emergency rule; cites relaxation of censorship on domestic press (S)
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Reporter's Notebook: Now, Kissinger Woos His Critics
Date: 19 January 1977
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
Article on Sec Kissinger's last few days in office notes nothing exasperated him more as Sec than his inability to win over Amer Jewish community; says Kissinger was aware that because of his 'evenhanded' Middle East diplomacy and continuous pressure on Israel to be Conciliatory, he was suspect in minds of many Amers and many Israelis; notes Kissinger recently told meeting of Conf of Presidents of Major Amer Jewish Orgns that support US gave Israel reflected not his personal preferences alone, but basic natl interests of US; Kissinger illus (M)
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News Comes Late For Closed Hotel
Date: 20 January 1977
Discovery by Fed scientists that previously unknown bacterium apparently caused so-called legionnaires' disease comes too late for Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Phila, which closed in Nov because of bad publicity it recd over outbreak; Bruce Greenfield, pres of Bankers Security Corp, says hotel will not be reopened (S)
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Haig Says Soviet Retains Hope of A-War Victory
Date: 20 January 1977
NATO comdr Gen Alexander M Haig Jr, in int in Belgian magazine Knack, says reptd Soviet stress on civil defense means USSR has not abandoned concept of victory in nuclear war (S)
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