Word: fateh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acronym derived from the Arabic words Harakat al Tahrir al-Falastin, or Movement for the Liberation of Palestine. Its initials, H.T.F., form the Arabic word for death. They are ingeniously reversible to F.T.H., pronounced "faht," meaning conquest -hence El Fatah or, as it is less commonly spelled, El Fateh...
Inside one of the temples lay the man who had started it all: Sant (Saint) Fateh Singh, 56, the chief leader of India's 7,800,000 Sikhs. Though weakened from nine days of fasting, he, too, was scheduled for burning. He had pledged to immolate himself the next day, unless the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi granted his people new concessions...
What bothered the Sikhs now was that she also divided the capital city of Chandigarh and its Le Corbusier-designed secretariat building. Sant Fateh wanted the whole place. And this time, the lady was unbending. It seemed as if the Sikh leaders would have no choice but to make good their threats to put themselves to the torch...
Firm Stand. The assembled Sikhs gave an audible sigh of relief, and the immolations were postponed while Speaker Hukam huddled with Sant Fateh. After 2½ hours of talks, the Sant signaled his acceptance by taking a glass of orange juice from Sardar Hukam, thus breaking his fast. Under the deal, Mrs. Gandhi will arbitrate the Sikh demands after next February's national elections. As an added fillip, she promised to set up separate judicial and executive systems for the Sikh and Hindu states...
...state on essentially religious grounds, something that India's constitution prohibits. Not so, argued the Sikhs, who claimed it was a matter of language. They are the only one of India's 14 major linguistic groups that has not been granted a separate state. Sikh Leader Sant Fateh Singh, 54, threatened to go on a 15-day fast climaxed by self-immolation unless the demand was met. Anxious to avoid violence, the Working Committee, of which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is a mem ber, at last committed the federal government to formation of a Punjabispeaking state...