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...particularly ugly battle, in which hundreds of angry youths were involved, a black mob attacked and destroyed a group of buildings known as the Phoenix Center, founded by Mahatma Gandhi 80 years ago and now a monument to nonviolence. (Gandhi lived in South Africa from 1893 to 1915.) The episode began when hundreds of armed Indians assaulted 100 black refugees living in the center. Their motive: revenge for the previous looting and arson attacks by blacks on Indian townships...
...hectic swirl of diplomatic activity, Reagan also met with such Third World leaders as President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India, and for 30 minutes, following then" speeches on Thursday, with Shevardnadze. At a jammed reception on Wednesday night, the President shook hands with scores of other foreign dignitaries, including Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra. "Hello," said Reagan stiffly to the leader he once called "a little man in green fatigues." "Thank you for inviting me," replied Ortega, who the next day denounced the President's remarks about Nicaragua as "full of lies...
After more than two years of civil strife that has led to some 2,000 deaths, tentative steps were taken last week toward a settlement between Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist movements and the government of President Junius Jayewardene. Under pressure from India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the island nation's warring factions began peace talks in Thimbu, capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Shortly afterward the government, which is dominated by Sri Lanka's 70% majority of Sinhalese Buddhists, lifted nighttime curfews imposed on five northern districts heavily populated by Tamil-speaking Hindus. The government also released...
...said they seized a van containing more than 260 lbs. of explosives in the vicinity of the President's office. Two Tamil youths were arrested and identified as members of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students, one of five separatist groups participating in the Thimbu conference. A spokesman for Gandhi denounced the assassination attempt and urged both sides "to exercise maximum restraint at this delicate stage...
...Finally, there was 1971, the Indo-Pak war. After Mrs. Gandhi completed the decimation of East Pakistan, she wanted to gobble up West Pakistan. At least that's the way I read it. The Chinese were climbing the walls. We were concerned that the Chinese might intervene to stop India. We didn't learn till later that they didn't have that kind of conventional capability. But if they did step in, and the Soviets reacted, what would we do? There was no question what we would have done...