Word: arun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Editor Arun Shourie asserted that the real goal was to make an example of the paper in order to "silence the rest of the press." Recent Express editorials have battered Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and the paper's reports on corruption have forced the resignation of a close Gandhi associate in Parliament. The government said the raid found that the Express had evaded $257,000 in customs duties. The paper called the charges "lies" and said it would fight in court...
Gandhi is accused of being petulant, indecisive and dissembling. His response to criticism has been to hint that foreign powers are plotting to "destabilize" the country. Says Indian Express Editor Arun Shourie, one of Gandhi's harshest critics: "He is not a deep person. He says what he thinks will please you." Political insiders in New Delhi have taken to calling Gandhi...
Others, cut off from the emergency exits, were caught in the random gunfire. Arun Athavale, of El Toro, Calif., saw a family of four sprayed by bullets but could not tell whether any survived. Athavale, who escaped injury by falling to the floor, said later, "Most of the people who got killed didn't duck." Outside the aircraft, people were walking around in a daze, too shocked to realize they were among the ones who had been spared...
...attack was over in moments. As retired General Arun Vaidya, one of India's most decorated soldiers, drove with his wife and bodyguard to his home in Pune, some 80 miles from Bombay, a motorcycle and a scooter roared up on either side of his car. Each two-wheeled vehicle carried a pair of armed youths. One of them sprayed the car with gunfire, killing the general and wounding his wife. The Khalistan Commando Force, a Sikh terrorist group, promptly took responsibility...
...visibility and impossible road conditions. In Portland which likes to call itself the "most livable city," the International Airport was forced to suspend operations, while a Pacific Coast League baseball game was "ashed out." Residents donned surgical and industrial face masks, if they could find any, and there was arun on pantyhose to protect auto carburetors. When a light drizzle began turning the ash into a pasty goo, even street sweepers and water hoses seemed to be of little help. In Washington's agricultural Cowlitz County, the ash found its way into electrical transformers, causing short circuits and blackouts...