Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returning to New Delhi, Swamy said he hopes to "coalesce the fragments" of the opposition into a "democratic, right-of-center coalition party. My job is to hammer it all out into something cohesive...
...greeted him cheerily, "Hello, Charles. How are you?" The drinker reached for his revolver, and his interlocutor fell upon him and announced his arrest. Thus did Inspector Madhukar Zende, an ace Bombay detective, seize Charles Sobhraj, the international criminal who three weeks earlier had escaped from New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar Central Jail by slipping his guards drugged candies during a mock birthday party...
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach said yesterday in New Delhi, India, that talks on 1900 U.S. soldiers missing in action had been called off until the U.S. military threat against Libya ends...
...after Carbide's announcement, the government of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi called the settlement "totally unacceptable." The New Delhi goverment insisted that it would only agree to an amount that would "fully and fairly compensate all the victims." Indian officials privately deemed that figure to be in the $700 million to $1 billion range...
...guards doze in the heat, that Charles Sobhraj will make his move." That prediction, made in 1979 in a best-selling book, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, became reality last week. During an impromptu "birthday party" with his jailers at the Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi, Sobhraj plied seven officials and guards with drugged sweets, tied them up, then sped away in a waiting car with six fellow inmates...