Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the packed New Delhi courtroom. He was George Fernandes, 46, chairman of the Socialist Party of India and former president of the All-India Rail-waymen's Federation, and he was now facing India's first prosecution for conspiracy against the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Behind Fernandes came 21 co-defendants-industrialists, journalists, politicians and others-also handcuffed and chained. With characteristic fervor, Fernandes rattled his shackles and declared that he was guilty of no crime. "We and the chains we bear before you today," he told Magistrate Mohammed Shamim, "are symbolic of the entire...
...central government." Already the prosecution has submitted a list of 575 witnesses it plans to call-suggesting that the trial is being staged as a courtroom spectacular that could last for months. Presumably the government is hoping to demonstrate, through testimony, that the threat of subversion justified Mrs. Gandhi 16 months ago in her drastic curtailment of civil rights...
Great foreign leaders have always evoked strong emotions among Americans. Churchill and Gandhi, Hitler and Stalin-all had precise images, good or evil, and their deaths were cause for sorrow or celebration. With Mao Tse-tung, it is another story. In his lifetime, he was transformed in the public mind from archenemy to a more ambiguous figure who inspired neither hatred nor love, but uneasy admiration...
...busy, and so did North Korea's Kim II Sung and Uganda's Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada. Among those who did gather in Colombo: Viet Nam's ascetic Premier Pham Van Dong, Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, India's stately Indira Gandhi, Cyprus' black-bearded Archbishop Makarios...
...India, claims of torture used against political prisoners have steadily increased since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency 13 months ago. The New York-based International League for Human Rights charged last June that Indian jailers have been guilty of "torture, brutality, starvation and other mistreatment of prisoners." Common methods: beatings with steel rods and rifle butts, electric shock and burning with candles...