Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long hair. Their heads shaved to the scalp, faces no longer covered with luxuriant beards, Sikhs lay in the street, blasphemed, humiliated and scorned. Last week, in an atmosphere of anarchy, Gandhi's government imposed harsh measures of its own. In clashes between police and terrorists in New Delhi, the Punjab and Haryana, at least eight people were killed and 36 wounded. After five moderate Sikhs were assassinated by radical members of the sect, the government ordered the arrest of 1,225 young Sikh fanatics across the country who were suspected of sabotage and planning insurrection. To quell further...
...addicts are in prison, and last year 1,000 soldiers were dismissed from the Malaysian army for drug involvement. In neighboring Thailand, long permissive in matters of vice, some leading authorities now favor stringent antidrug laws and compulsory rehabilitation. In India, new users range from drivers of Delhi's scooter taxis to affluent businessmen who view a quick fix as the fashionable thing...
...report that they are now catching more traffickers. Nevertheless, as usual in the heroin business, more arrests also mean that pushers have to cut prices and redouble their efforts to find buyers, which in turn increases the number of Asian drug addicts. -By Lloyd Garrison. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi and James Willwerth/ Bangkok
There were several clues in the final days before Andropov's death to indicate that he was failing fast. In a highly unusual move, Ustinov canceled his important visit to New Delhi without giving any reason. Andropov's son, a diplomat attending the Stockholm security conference, hurried home on Tuesday afternoon for "family reasons." But there were equally contradictory signs. At about the time the Soviet desk on the sixth floor of the State Department was monitoring the telltale music from Moscow, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin, seemingly oblivious to the events back in Moscow, was two floors...
...years passed, and now Samaranch appears ebulliently at ease. Los Angeles had no rivals in bidding for the coming Summer Games, but Samaranch says that Brisbane, New Delhi, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Stockholm are fighting over 1992, and the entries are not closed yet. The Olympic spirit is hopeful again. If it would only snow...