Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Akali Dal, the Sikh political party, had just come from Chandigarh, where he had persuaded two leading Sikhs to withdraw their opposition to an agreement that he and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had signed on July 24, ending three years of Sikh confrontation with the government in New Delhi. Earlier in the day, Longowal had announced that the party would contest all seats in the Sept. 22 elections for the state assembly and 13 seats in Parliament...
...giving Gandhi the confidence to announce elections for Sept. 22. After Longowal's death, Gandhi changed the date to Sept. 25 to allow for the mourning period. The elections will be the first in five years and will end nearly two years of direct rule of Punjab from New Delhi...
...accord followed discussions in New Delhi early this month between Jayawardene and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, during which the two leaders agreed to "defuse" the situation in Sri Lanka. Because the five insurgent organizations subscribing to the truce have their headquarters and operational commands in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, Gandhi is in a position to put pressure on them. Jayawardene, for his part, has ordered a review of the constitution, with an eye toward granting Sri Lanka's Tamils greater autonomy...
...Host David Hartman and his producers watch Today's resurgence and the evolving changes at Morning News with practiced calm. Though Hartman flew to New Delhi three weeks ago to interview Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, McGrady has no plans to copy Today's weeklong jaunts away from the studio. "Whenever you're in trouble, you travel," she says. "We still go out, but we don't need to do it in such...
...legislators demanded that the Administration suspend a contract to supply fuel to India's two U.S.-built Tarapur power reactors. The installation has been governed by international safeguards since 1963, but India refuses to accept the principle of all-embracing inspection. In retaliation for the U.S. pressure, New Delhi warned that it would void the existing Tarapur safeguards agreement. If carried out, that action would have totally removed the complex from all outside control, and would have set a bad precedent for the nonproliferation system...