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...force. Since then, Nepal's civil war has claimed another 900 lives. Peace negotiations have been abandoned; Parliament last week extended the state of emergency by three months and the talk now is of full-scale war. "I no longer believe they are sincere about talks," Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba told TIME...
...violence in Nepal's six-year Maoist uprising came what may be the biggest political victory ever for a Nepalese Prime Minister. Certainly no official before him has won passage of a more contentious bill, and with a larger vote in his favor: last week Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba received a resounding 194-7 vote in favor of extending his State of Emergency legislation for another 90 days. The horror of the attacks in Western Nepal (see story) contributed immensely to the bill's success, but its passage showed that Deuba may be learning how to finally unify Nepal...
...Party's resort to nominating Gandhi's Italian-born and determinedly apolitical widow Sonia to the party presidency. Her polite refusal, returned within a day of the offer, forced the party to look within for the first nondescendant of Nehru who might hold the reins of government since Lal Bahadur Shastri briefly succeeded the late patriarch in the gentler year...
Then she collapsed in tears. Almost every time someone spoke to her, she would start crying. Nehru's successor, Lai Bahadur Shastri, wanted her to serve as Foreign Minister, but she wanted no public office at all. Only after ten days of Shastri's pleading did she agree to serve as Minister of Information and Broadcasting, a minor post. After less than two years in office, Shastri suddenly died, and the Congress Party bosses could not agree on a successor. They turned to Mrs. Gandhi as someone who could serve while the struggle for power went...
...forces, and the Gurkhas from Nepal as the most contented. They brought their bugles and drums with them to Lebanon, and an enormous silver bell used both for ceremonies and for sounding an alarm. "Our King believes in peace," says the Nepalese commander, Lieut. Colonel Keshar Bahadur Gantaula. "We came here in that spirit, and we'll give anyone a fair chance. But, of course, if they don't respond, then we'll fight...