Word: goa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue at hand was whether Goa, after 451 years of Portuguese rule and five years as a semiautonomous "union territory" of India, should give up its separate identity and become part of teeming Maharashtra state (pop. 39.5 million). The decision was to be made by Goan voters in an "opinion poll" conducted by the Indian government, and the two goddesses did not have the field entirely to themselves. Opposing the merger were the leaders of Goa's 250,000 Roman Catholics, a powerful force in themselves. "Think Goan," pleaded priests from their pulpits, while Catholic politicians of the United...
Indians must have loved the gods: they made so many of them. Shanta Durga is a ten-handed goddess revered by the 400,000 Hindus in the former Portuguese enclave of Goa. Bhaväni is a ten-handed goddess considered to be the source of all power in the neighboring Indian state of Maharashtra. Last week Bhaväni and Shanta Durgá tried to join hands. Carried by Hindu nationalists, images of the two goddesses were paraded through the streets of scores of Goan villages, together with posters proclaiming: "After 450 years, Bhaväni wills...
...Armour & Co. has signed a preliminary agreement with the Birla Gwalior industrial group to build a $50 million, 220,000-ton fertilizer firm in Goa...
...support Japan's steel industry, the world's third largest, Japanese companies have purchase agreements covering five fields in Australia, have put up $21 million to develop iron sources in India, will get more ore from Goa and Brazil to ensure a total 50 million tons a year. Coke to reduce it will come from Australia...
...preserve his freedom. Indeed, wars often have the virtue of deciding issues more definitely than diplomacy. Israel exists today not because the Jews were capable negotiators but because they were courageous fighters against the Arabs. India ignored its own sanctimonious praise of peace to seize Portuguese Goa and thus permanently removed that galling thorn from its side. By contrast, the feud between Turkish and Greek Cypriots still festers despite years of negotiations and may never be settled short of full-scale civil...