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...Friday was Republic Day, India's main national holiday, and in the capital of New Delhi, the traditionally dazzling parade was held with camel corps, bagpipers and helicopters showering marigold petals onto assembled dignitaries?while Gujaratis were trying to dig out their friends and neighbors with bare hands. For most of that day, rescue attempts were undertaken entirely by survivors and volunteers. By nightfall, desperation was setting in: where were the relief workers, the rescue equipment, the cranes so essential to lifting the rubble and sifting for survivors? Complained Vinod Trivedi, 52, an insurance worker in Ahmedabad: "Not even...
...separated mother in middle-class New Delhi, Shobha Batra struggled to make ends meet. She worked as a nurse, helped run the family's kindergarten and spent hours cleaning, cooking and looking after her six-year-old. She needed someone to help out, but worried that a man in the house could be dangerous and a woman might bring home boyfriends. Far better, and cheaper, she decided, to buy a child...
DIED. JITENDRA PRASADA, 62, seniorleader of India's main opposition Congress Party, who made headlines last year when he challenged Italian-born Sonia Gandhi for the party's leadership; in New Delhi. Prasada's challenge was unprecedented in a party known for fierce loyalty to the leadership. He had campaigned against what he called a self-serving coterie around Gandhi in the run-up to the election, but was defeated resoundingly...
...Noted "We are working hard to convince the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on efforts to calm hostilities between New Delhi and Islamabad...
...ouster of Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic [WORLD, Oct. 16] was a triumph of justice over greed and deception. There could never be adequate punishment in any court for Milosevic. But his defeat is proof that when people unite, energy is released that conquers evil. CHITRA AMARNATH New Delhi...