Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 35 years." He called on the nations of the world "to show that a line can and will be drawn against Soviet expansion." Even Indira Gandhi, India's newly re-elected Prime Minister, who at first seemed to back the Soviet move, told a New Delhi press conference last week that no "country is justified in entering another country...
After receiving congratulations from Ram and Singh, Mrs. Gandhi proceeded to New Delhi's imposing Parliament House. Dressed for the occasion in a shiny new red and gold sari, she received bouquets of roses and garlands of white flowers from the 350 legislators who had been elected under her leadership. President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy then formally invited her to form a government...
...legislator and the now probable success of the appeal of his conviction. (He was found guilty of stealing and then destroying the master print of a movie satirizing his mother's rule.) Returning to the capital from his new constituency in Amethi, he was greeted at New Delhi airport by several hundred vociferous supporters playing flutes, bugles and drums. Sanjay, who has long been his mother's most influential adviser, will wield additional power through a number of new M.P.s who were handpicked by him to run for Parliament...
...back veranda of her home at 12 Willingdon Crescent in New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi last week briefly outlined some of her foreign policy views for TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger. Mrs. Gandhi declined to say what specific role India would play in the politics of the region since, as she put it, "before you can offer some leadership, you have to set your house in order. At this moment things are in a mess here." But then she added: "That doesn't mean we can ignore what's happening on our borders." Excerpts from...
...closed tight. Nonetheless, he was able to get a perspective on developments inside Afghanistan by talking to Afghan rebel warriors near Peshawar and at Dara Adam Khail, a wide-open frontier town that, says DeVoss, "supplies the sine qua non of many an Afghan's wardrobe -guns." New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger, whose experience with Muslim militance includes being besieged with 90 others at the burning U.S. embassy in Pakistan in November, managed to reach Kabul aboard a regular flight. Yet her stay was brief: at the airport, which she found to be "a veritable garrison...