Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Special clothes hangers had to be found to accommodate the Indian Prime Minister's flowing silk saris. Red roses-her late father's favored flower -were arrayed around Blair House. As to whether Indira Gandhi should address the all-male National Press Club or the ladies' press corps or both, it was diplomatically decided that a joint session was called for. Executing such arrangements would be delicate even for old protocol hands. Yet this week's state visit-the first ever by a woman Premier-marked a last-minute premiere for a novice. Unruffled, James Wadsworth...
...last week as the State Department's Chief of Protocol, succeeding Lloyd Hand, who resigned to enter California politics. He had been in office less than an hour when he presented Sudan's new ambassador, Amin Ahmed Hussein, to the President. Apart from preparing for Mrs. Gandhi's visit, Symington was also busily readying himself to handle the myriad problems of the 113 foreign mission chiefs in Washington-his new "constituency," as Johnson called...
...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...
Drawn Swords. Meanwhile, thousands of other Hindus carried their protests to the streets. Chanting "Punjabi Suba Murdabad!" (Death to the [Sikh] state of Punjab!) and "Indira Gandhi Murdabad!" (Death to Indira Gandhi!), the mobs attacked government property and set fire to Sikh shops, causing uncounted damage. In the town of Panipat, 55 miles north of Delhi, a local Congress Party worker and two other men were burned alive when Hindu rioters set fire to the cycle shop in which they were trapped. In the old city of Delhi, turbaned guards at the main Sikh temple impassively shrugged off insults...
...communal rioting was of deep concern to Indira Gandhi, who only the week before had returned from an inspection trip of other trouble spots: West Bengal, where food riots had raged for three weeks, and Assam, where the 260,000 Mizo hill people staged a bitter, bloody "war of independence" before Indian troops moved in to put down their revolt. The spate of domestic troubles complicated preparations for her trip to Washington next week. There she would have long discussions with Lyndon Johnson, and en route she would stop in Paris for talks with French officials...