Word: bihari
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Even though the polls showed that the majority of Americans support Clinton, Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to impeach. Maybe we need a new name for this body: the House of Misrepresentatives. JIM BIHARI Columbus, Ohio...
...DELHI: Throwing a few Christians to the lions may be a government reelection strategy in India. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday visited the southern state of Gujarat, which has seen a wave of attacks on Christians -- but instead of simply calling for the attacks to stop, Vajpayee issued a call for a national debate over religious conversion. ?India?s constitution guarantees the right to propagate one?s religion,? says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. ?The reason Vajpayee is raising the conversion issue is to put the opposition Congress party on the defensive, because its leader, Sonia Gandhi...
...Pakistan and India pull back? Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said his country might reach an agreement not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. Domestic opposition to his party's nuclear jingoism is starting to emerge now that cooler heads assess how much sanctions, like the World Bank's postponement of an $865 million loan, may hurt. Even some in the Indian military are urging restraint. "I don't see a warlike situation building up on either side," says General V.P. Malik, chief of staff...
...Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power, and the first thing Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee plans to do is carry out that canceled nuclear test. The B.J.P. has made nuclear assertion a cardinal plank of its India-first platform, and Vajpayee gives the go-ahead, but scientists tell him it will take a month. Before they can carry through, his government falls, after just 13 days in office...
...five nuclear blasts. But despite the tests, the B.J.P. and its program are in fact much less volatile than they were a few years ago. The party has been forced to make a series of compromises in its climb to power. And its portly, affable Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 71, is a scholarly moderate who last week, as he was garlanded with flowers by A-bomb celebrators, posed conspicuously with Muslim well-wishers...