Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the country, the bureau resorted to extraordinary measures. A hotel room was rented across the street from the London Time-Life Building for catnaps between assignments. New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger was abruptly recruited to lend a hand when she stopped off en route from New York to India. Brenda Draper, London bureau picture researcher, worked with a variety of official British photographers and freelancers to obtain a steady flow of pictures for both stories. Correspondent Mary Cronin turned from organizing the wedding coverage on a master bulletin board to charting the causes of the social unrest. Correspondent...
...rewrite their previous nuclear agreements with Washington to conform to the new and tougher standards. But the Carter plan had only limited success. By the end of his term Carter was reinterpreting it himself by selling 38 tons of embargoed uranium to India despite the fact that New Delhi, which had exploded a nuclear device in 1974, refused to sign the N.P.T. Carter's rationale: the need for the U.S. to strengthen its shaky ties wth India at a time when the subcontinent was overshadowed by the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan...
Although the abrasive Sanjay frequently outraged New Delhi powerbrokers with his highhanded ways, he carried out a serious task for his mother: he kept the volatile Congress Party in line. Since his death, dissent has begun to bubble in party ranks. Rajiv, at least outwardly, seems less adapted to playing pointman for his mother, but he starts his new career with two big advantages: by the corrupt standards of Indian political life, he is Mr. Clean, and Congress Party members will not dare challenge his authority if they want to remain on the good side of Indira Gandhi...
...causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away as New Delhi, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on an official visit to India, was confronted by demonstrators protesting Britain's new immigration restrictions. A group of 23 pickets was arrested after throwing placards at her limousine...
...trucks. "Such a mine said Pravda, "can be passed over by 40 trucks but the 41st will be blown up. After 16 months in Afghanistan, in fact, the 85,000 Soviet occupation troops still control only the capital of Kabul. Last week Indian Journalist Rajendra Sareen, editor of New Delhi's POT Analysis and News Service, returned from an eleven-day visit to Afghanistan, where he interviewed President Babrak Karmal, head of the Soviet-installed regime in Kabul. He gave TIME this report...