Word: gandhis
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...Rahul Gandhi, heir to modern India's most storied family, touched down by helicopter and spoke for only seven minutes, but in that short stump speech to a friendly crowd in northern India's farm belt, he set out what he hopes will be a road map for a Congress Party victory in the general election that begins on April...
First: turn inexperience into an advantage. Gandhi, 38, is at least a generation younger than most of the other leaders of his party (let alone the opposition), and he has had little more than his pedigree and a few years as a consultant to back his entry into politics. He was an energetic campaigner in 2004, but those elections really belonged to his mother, Sonia Gandhi, who asserted her canny leadership of the party in putting together a winning coalition. This year, Rahul Gandhi is trying to make his mark, with a pledge to democratize the institutions of his party...
...Party (BJP), the biggest opposition party, has been relentlessly criticizing the Congress Party for being "soft on terror" - India has suffered through a dozen serial blasts over the past two years. The BJP stepped up its rhetoric after the three-day terrorism attacks in Mumbai, but in this speech Gandhi struck back sharply. He reminded the crowd that it was a BJP government that negotiated the handover of three Muslim extremists to end the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a decision that proved disastrous - one of the jihadis who was released was later sentenced...
...Seko, ruler of Zaire for 32 years, who took the country as personal reward for "liberating" it. But it is also observed around the world. A tide of leftwing revolt in Latin America, China and Southeast Asia left much of the same sour legacy of totalitarianism. In India, the Gandhi family has towered over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation...
...Clint Eastwood films and Hollywood action flicks, Prabhakaran is considered to have practically invented suicide bombers. His "Black Tiger" bombers - almost half of them women - have killed thousands, including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasunghe Premadasa. The elite Black Sea Tigers perform underwater suicide bombings to sink enemy ships. (Read "A Brief History of the Tamil Tigers...