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...shortage of food in the country, people are going back to the land. We have taken stock of our debts and redone the budget. We tried to cut expenditures and set up a committee to review which projects we can handle and which ones we should totally abandon. We will not allow state governments to take on any more loans, and the federal government has curtailed all other foreign loans. Even the foreign bankers have started to see results...
...that would bypass Abdullah and his government. When the governor refused, he was replaced by a Gandhi loyalist. Congress (I) Party politicians then secretly promised state government cabinet posts to twelve National Conference Party assemblymen, led by Abdullah's brother-in-law, in exchange for their agreement to abandon the Chief Minister and thus deprive him of a majority in the assembly. Kashmir's new pro-Gandhi governor then dismissed Abdullah, first taking the precaution of calling in the Indian army...
Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov was briefing a top-level Nicaraguan delegation over dinner in Moscow earlier this year. Emboldened by vodka, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra demanded of Ustinov, "Are you with us to the end, or will you abandon us to the U.S.?" According to an exSandinista official, Ustinov stared back in stony silence and ignored the question. The next day, however, the Nicaraguans received a formal note from the Foreign Ministry saying that the Soviet Union would honor its ties of friendship and cooperation with the people of Nicaragua. But in the final analysis, the note added...
...wave of prosecutions, sanctuary leaders plan to continue their work. Says the Rev. Gregory Dell, whose Wheadon United Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill, is sheltering two Salvadorans: "The basic style of churches is not to break any more laws than necessary. But we're not going to abandon refugees who are the subject of injustice, regardless of the laws of the United States...
Bowing to opposition from neighborhood residents, Harvard officials have decided to abandon plans to build an overhead bridge connecting the Fogg Art Museum to its recently constructed extension, the Arthur M Sackler Musuem...