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...relations with India, Gorbachev was accompanied by his wife Raisa and a high-level delegation that included Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Central Committee Secretary Anatoli Dobrynin and Military Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Soviet leader was welcomed as a "crusader for peace" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and cheered by schoolchildren and villagers who lined the route from the airport into New Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While the two men got down to business, Raisa Gorbachev...
...almost ten hours of talks with Gorbachev, Prime Minister Gandhi reiterated his own opposition to the militarization of outer space. The two leaders signed a joint declaration calling for an immediate ban on nuclear- weapons testing, with the goal of achieving an international ban on all nuclear and space-based weapons by the year 2000. The Delhi Declaration, as it was called, implied that Moscow would extend its own unilateral nuclear test ban, which had been set to expire on Jan. 1. The moratorium was first imposed after an appeal from India. The Soviets also announced that they were giving...
Gorbachev was less forthcoming on the question of Afghanistan. India has long sought reassurances that the Kremlin would withdraw the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan, and Gandhi again pressed for a complete withdrawal. At a press conference Gorbachev said he could not give a timetable for withdrawal but had been encouraged by a United Nations peace effort involving Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. At the same time, Gandhi refused to endorse a Soviet proposal to convene an Asian Security Conference along the lines of the European Security Conference that produced the 1975 Helsinki agreement. Gandhi brushed...
Furthermore, in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Thoreau we engaged in basically nonviolent protest. It is extremely sad that there were injuries among both the police and the students. From my vantage point as an arrestee, I was appalled by the large presence of state riot police and examples of unnecessary use of force by the police. Jay Allain
...Role of Imperialism in Fostering World Development," "The Drawbacks of Affirmative Action" and "'The White Man's Burden:' European Literature as a Force for World Salvation." The reading list for the concentration would include works by Kipling, Cecil Rhodes and Winston Churchill. Notably absent would be anything by Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Leopold Senghor...