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Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi decided last week that he was not going to take it anymore. Frustrated by the failure of the state government in Punjab to check terrorism in the troubled region, Gandhi dismissed the state's chief minister and imposed direct rule by the central government in New Delhi. This is the second time in four years that the federal administration has removed an elected government in Punjab in order to combat Sikh extremists...
...that is not the Prime Minister's only problem. Gandhi's party has suffered a string of local-election defeats. Gandhi is hoping the crackdown in Punjab will help his party retain power in next month's state-assembly elections in neighboring Haryana...
...weeks Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been under fire for his party's poor performance in recent state elections and for his high-handed treatment of Indian politicians. Last week Gandhi sparked the gravest crisis of his career by forcing Defense Minister V.P. Singh, widely regarded as the ablest and most honest member of the Cabinet, to resign. Singh stepped down after he was bitterly attacked by Gandhi loyalists for authorizing probes into illegal financial dealings and military-contract kickbacks that promised to embarrass the Prime Minister...
...someday be famous, and that of course is what happens. The former beach girl becomes the wife and then the widow of an important black revolutionary, assassinated by South African security forces. She later marries another black, who becomes President of his (unnamed) liberated country. She hobnobs with Indira Gandhi and Bishop Desmond Tutu. She and her husband are honored guests at the ceremony marking the accession of black rule in South Africa...
...uneasy stalemate prevails in Peking. -- Gandhi' s party takes a drubbing at the polls. -- France' s Chirac after a year of cohabitation...