Word: delhi
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...Zimbabwe, the government detained his wife and three other members of his family. Later, authorities announced that Nkomo's wife had been released on unspecified "humanitarian grounds," although the other family members remained in custody. Publicly, government officials (though not Mugabe, who was away attending the New Delhi summit conference for nonaligned nations) expressed delight that Nkomo had decided to "take the gap," the phrase usually reserved for whites leaving black-ruled Zimbabwe. Privately, they feared that Nkomo's escape would exacerbate the situation at home and further damage the country's reputation overseas...
...airport ceremony forced John Paul to deal head-on with the nettlesome issue of Nicaraguan priests who hold government posts in defiance of his wishes. Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Maryknoll priest, was conveniently out of the country, attending a meeting of the nonaligned nations in New Delhi, when the Pope arrived. But Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a priest, was in the official receiving line along with other government ministers. He was wearing his typical rustic white cotton shirt, baggy blue work pants and a black beret. As the Pontiff approached, Cardenal whipped off his beret...
Under India's constitution, Mrs. Gandhi had no recourse but to hold elections. After Assamese dissidents brought down the state government, New Delhi imposed direct rule over the state last March. But the constitutional limit on such a "President's rule" is one year, and the March 19 deadline was fast nearing. Mrs. Gandhi said she approached the political opposition for support in passing a constitutional amendment that would extend the deadline but did not receive it. The opposition's cooperation would have been necessary because Mrs. Gandhi's own ruling Congress (I) Party does...
...effort to defuse the situation and find a resolution to the crisis, New Delhi engaged in negotiations with the student leaders for nearly three years. The government and the students agreed tentatively that anyone who settled in Assam before 1961 could stay. They also agreed to consider that anyone who came after 1971 would be repatriated to other parts of India, a decision that would affect almost 1 million people. But the students were adamant that those who had arrived between 1961 and 1971 be either denied the right to vote or forced to leave, an enormous exercise that could...
...districts, where there was no violence, but that 18 state and seven parliamentary contests had had to be nullified. It was not a victory that anyone could take satisfaction from - and hardly a happy note on which to welcome the 80 heads of state who will arrive in New Delhi next week for the summit conference of nonaligned nations. - By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi...