Word: 16th
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During the week of riots following the destruction of a 16th century mosque at Ayodhya, Indian police arrested nearly 6,000 Hindus and Muslims in a nationwide crackdown. Public order has been restored, but the country's political crisis continues to deepen. Within minutes of reconvening, Parliament erupted in chaos as legislators locked horns over Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's dismissal of three state governments ruled by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Rao's move may backfire if citizens demonstrate a preference for the B.J.P. leaders they elected...
Hindu nationalists have been fighting over the 16th century mosque since 1855. In recent years, the cause was taken up by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has used anti-Muslim feelings to advance its political fortunes. By attacking the supposed privileges of the Muslim community and taking up the struggle over the mosque, the party won 88 seats in the lower house of Parliament...
Confronted by events and opprobrium, Bonn finally lurched into action -- prodded as well by the realization that right-wing violence was spilling beyond the asylum seekers' hostels, the traditional confines of xenophobic attacks. Not only were the 14th, 15th and 16th fatalities of this year's violence Turks -- members of an influential, 1.7 million-strong community whose labors helped make Germany an economic powerhouse -- but word came of two more murders, both of Germans, committed by rightist thugs. In Berlin a leftist was stabbed; in Wuppertal a man was stomped and burned by assailants who apparently -- and mistakenly -- thought...
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Other Harvard runners to place were junior Alais Griffin (18:48, sixth), sophomore Jennifer Kearney (19:15, 14th) and sophomore Megan Fritschel (19:17, 16th). This was Harvard's first loss of the season. The team is currently...