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The original documents are located in Box 18, folder "6.28 - India" of the Charles H.
McCall Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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6.28 4/21/75 NYT
75
49M
Satellite Shot Hailed by Leaders of India
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
electricity and chemical batter-
rays at times of intense solar
Special to The New York Times
ies for storing electricity.
activity. The third instrument
The key source of Soviet
will detect electrons in the ion-
NEW DELHI, April 20-In-
assistance, however, was the
osphere and ultraviolet radia-
dian scientists and government
use of a powerful booster rock-
tion in the night sky."
officials were exultant today
et. The Soviet Union agreed
The cost of the launching
over yesterday's launching
to provide the launcher under
and satéllite was reported to
from the Soviet Union of the
a May; 1972, agreement.
be about $6-million.
nation's first space satellite.
The Press Trust of India,
President Fakhruddin Ali
one of the two news agencies
Ahmed, in a speech in Bombay,
that unofficially reflects the
Shipping/Mails
congratulated "our scientists
Government line, issued a long
and technologists who have
set of questions and answers
been helping the Government
today about the satellite.
Incoming
and the people in putting. India
One of the questions was:
TODAY, APRIL 21,
on the map along with other
What is Aryabhata's mission
AUSTRAL PILOT (Farrell), Capetown
May 11; sails from Joralemon St., Brook-
developed countries."
in space during these six
lyn.
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, pres-
months?
KUNGSHOLM, Swed. Amer. left Cristo-
bal April 16; due 2 P.M. at W. 48th St.
ident of the Indian Science
The answer was: "Almost the
Congress association, termed
same as that of Sputnik I and
Outgoing
it "another proud day for all
the first American satellite Ex-
Indians."
plorer 1. Aryabhata's payload
SAILING TODAY
The 800-pound spacecraft
includes instruments to carry
Trans Atlantic
was launched with the aid of
out three experiments in space.
ATLANTICA IBERIA (Atlantica), Lisbon
a booster rocket from the
One set of instruments will
May 3; saifs from Global Marine Ter-
Soviet Union that hurled
look for X-rays. in space. An-
minal, N.J.
other set aims at detecting high
AFRICAN DAWN (Farrell), Praia ¿April
the satellite into orbit. The
energy neutrons and gamma
29, Dakar 30, Conakry May 7 and Matadi
launching came 11 months
12; sails from Joralemon St., Brooklyn.
after India's underground nu-
(Farrell)
Capetown
clear explosion in the Rajas-
than Desert.
The nuclear blast, the na-
tion's first, was widely criti-
cized abroad. Critics said that
India, an impoverished nation,
was squandering her re-
sources on a nuclear program
and that the decision to set
off the blast had advanced
the arms race and had
opened the way for other na-
tions to become nuclear
powers.
Reports here said that Soviet
assistance had been required
for electronic components, the
nitrogen gas spin system, on-
board sophisticated tape record-
ers for storing data, solar cells
Digitized from Box 18 of the Charles H. McCall Files
for converting solar energy into
at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
6.28 CABINET OFFICIAL
IS OUSTED IN INDIA
Mrs. Gandhi's Abrupt Action
Deepens Party Tensions
35.75
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
Special to The New York Times
NEW DELHI, March
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
has abruptly dismissed an out-
spoken Cabinet official, stirring
controversy in the capital and
deepening the tensions in the
dominant Congress party.
The official, Mohan Dharia,
Minister of State for Works
and Housing, was unexpectedly
dropped on Sunday for publicly
urging Mrs. Gandhi to open a
dialogue with Jaya Prakash
Narayan, the ailing, 72-year-old
follower of Mohandas K.
Gandhi who is leading an anti-
corruption movement against
the Congress party.
What makes Mr. Dharia's dis-
missal significant is that the
move signals Mrs. Gandhi's im-
patience at critics within the
party and her own axiety about
Mr. Narayan-called J. P.-
whose movement is serving as
un umbrella for the opposition.
Moreover, the auster of Mr.
Dharia was a triumph for the
Soviet-supported Communist
party of India, which has de-
nounced him and several others
for supporting a dialogue with
Mr. Narayan.
Role of Communists
To Mr. Dharia the Com-
munists have a vested interest
in keeping Mrs. Gandhi and Mr.
Narayan apart. So long as the
two are at odds, Mr. Dharia
maintains, the Congress party
will depend increasingly on the
Communists for support.
Mr. Dharia is a widely re-
spected figure in Parliament
and was part of the 60-member
Council of Ministers, which in-
cludes Cabinet ministers, minis-
ters of state and deputy min-
isters. "I am drifting into a
confrontation," he said on Sun-
day. "But I cannot help it be-
cause I am saying what people
want and that is a dialogue
with the opposition, especially
with J. P."
Ironically, Mr. Dharia is a
member of the so-called "Young
Turk" wing of Congress, an
outspoken, left-wing branch of
the party that supported Mrs.
Gandhi in 1969 when the party
split. At that time, Mrs. Gandhi
overcame its old-guard leader-
ship and was supported by mili-
tants and socialists seeking dra-
matic economic and social
change.
Meeting Ruled Out
Although radical, the Young
Turks "have always been
stanchly anti-Communist and
have expressed blunt concern
about growing Communist in-
fluence in the party. The dis-
missal of the 50-year-old lawyer
and former socialist has been
front-page news here in the last
two days. Mr. Dharia declined
to meet Mrs. Gandhi last night
and is set to make a statement
tomorrow in Parliament.
One of Mr. Dharia's strong
supporters, Chandra Shekhar,
said in a statement: "If it is
sought to use this action as a
deterrent and to silence the
voice of constructive dissent in
the party, it will fail in its ob-
jective. Mohan is a crusader for
certain values and he is a tena-
cious optimist. He was trying in
vain to reconcile incompatible
positions. The talk of politics of
commitment and the expedient
and convenient course of state-
craft have hardly any meeting
point in today's context."