Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the day, Deepak Kumar, 10, goes to school in New Delhi. In the evenings he earns a few rupees brushing ticks off the dogs owned by a local American artist. In response to a question from his boss about his classwork, Deepak boasts: "It's all right. I'm best in my class in Russian. And look, I have a library card." The card he proudly displays admits him to the library at the Soviet embassy. There he can find children's books, as well as tracts on Soviet life. He has no comparable access...
...masks, breathing may be difficult. Said Anderson, owner of an Albuquerque mineral firm: "If we can pull this off, I want to lead the first mining expedition into space. It just might be possible." Not so fast. At week's end, the pair was forced down near New Delhi, and it was not known whether the Jules Verne would rise again...
...contrast, Moraes describes a conversation he often has with Indian peasants. They ask him, Oh, are you from Delhi? Do you know our empress? Have you seen her?" Perhaps through her authoritative wielding of power or her strongly maternal figure, Indira Gandhi has managed to fight back the unflinching appeal to the West and give something to India that might...
...call of duty for TIME foreign correspondents inevitably has its hazards. New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger was inside the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, in November of last year when it was attacked and burned by an angry mob. She was the only journalist present, and her first-person account of the siege and subsequent rescue became part of a TIME cover story. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White was in Kampala for this week's World story on the Uganda elections when he and Photographer Bill Campbell were trapped for two hours at the downtown cable office under...
...Patricia Blake. Reported by Marcia Gauger/ New Delhi...