Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yogesh Gandhi, a businessman from Orinda, California, related to the Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, gave $325,000 to the D.N.C. in May after presenting Clinton with the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace award. It would be legal for Gandhi as a naturalized citizen to make such a contribution, as long as it was his own money. Gandhi claims to be independently wealthy, but tax records obtained by ABC News indicate that he and his foundation owe more than $10,000 in back taxes and that he does not even own his home. Whom could he be representing? The Wall Street...
...President needed something more presidential, something of enduring and classic value. It was a job, they realized, for the Dead White Men and, inclusively speaking, Dead Ladies too. No problem. Hillary could contact them through her medium and persuade Mahatma Gandhi to dig up their voice-mail numbers. Eleanor Roosevelt would brief them on the issues--if by late August any issues remained...
...under Houston's direction, Mrs. Clinton took up the part of Eleanor herself, telling Hillary how hard it was during her own tenure as First Lady and encouraging Mrs. Clinton to do what she thought was right. Houston persuaded Mrs. Clinton to engage in a similar dialogue with Mohandas Gandhi, but the First Lady drew the line at the suggestion she talk to Jesus Christ in front of the group...
More than 300 million Indians stood in line to cast their ballot in the general elections held from April 27 to May 7. Now that virtually all their votes have been counted, it is clear enough what most Indians were against: the Congress Party, the political juggernaut of Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that has ruled India for all but four years since 1947, when the country gained independence from Britain. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao is out, and the party, burdened with an image of corruption and lassitude, lost almost half its seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower...
...Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which pursues such hard-line policies as abolishing special constitutional provisions for Muslims and other minorities, making India a declared nuclear-weapons state and taking a tougher line against separatists in Kashmir. Most Indians remember that it was a Hindu nationalist who assassinated Gandhi in 1948 and that it was Hindu nationalists who touched off the worst anti-Muslim rioting in decades when they demolished a 16th century mosque at Ayodhya in 1992. There is real fear that a B.J.P. government could shatter India's secular tradition and tear its society apart...