Word: delhi
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Gandhi was shot and killed in New Delhi early yesterday by some of her own Sikh bodyguards. (For more on the assasination, see page four...
...ordered an army assault on Sikh extremists at the Golden Temple in Amritsar last June. Although Gandhi still denies any involvement in the affairs of Andhra Pradesh, she nonetheless faces two equally unappealing options in the state: she can dismiss the assembly and impose direct rule from New Delhi or allow Rama Rao to be reinstated by a vote of the assembly. Either way she risks more unpopularity and a tough election campaign ahead...
Alas, even the maestro could not keep harmony among his dissonant musicians. Zubin Mehta, 48, the Bombay-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic, had returned to his native land after an absence of 17 years. In New Delhi, the eleventh stop of the orchestra's eight-nation Asian tour, all seemed fine as two elephants tromboned a welcome, but then his musicians began raising a cacophony of complaints about the hotel accommodations. "Unbearable," screeched a violinist. "There are bugs in the bed," one musician whined. "And cockroaches," chimed in another. Mehta quieted the sour-note chorus by allowing...
Rama Rao's purpose in going to New Delhi was to make a personal appeal for reinstatement to Indian President Zail Singh. Rama Rao was accompanied by 162 loyal members of the Andhra Pradesh assembly. Their intention was to demonstrate to Zail Singh that the chief minister would have won a vote of confidence if he had been given the chance to call one. The President, however, was noncommittal, promising only that there would be "early justice...
...northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The furor over Rama Rao's removal has probably bought time for the chief ministers of the other four states-Karnataka, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. In an unaccustomed show of unity last week, opposition politicians met in New Delhi to protest what they called the "blatantly unconstitutional" dismissals and the "extinction of democracy." The leaders insisted that the Prime Minister was directly responsible for "this dangerous game of destabilization," and agreed to organize nationwide agitation against Mrs. Gandhi as the election deadline approaches...