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...least ten people dead and many others injured. A general strike organized by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and other opposition parties effectively shut down New Delhi and about 25 other cities. In a written statement, the - B.J.P. denounced Gandhi's government for what it described as a hollow promise to control terrorism...
...endless parties, picnics and explications. The pageantry is perfectly American. Yet the nation may have grown a little weary of such celebrations. The skies of the '80s have been filled with red, white and blue balloons. In the waning Reagan years, the note of national self-congratulation sounds hollow...
Whatever the odds, libel plaintiffs, especially public figures, often contend that suing is the only way to clear their reputations, that their denials will ring hollow unless accompanied by a court suit. "If I am elected President," says Robertson, "how could I ever order a young American into combat if the record is not absolutely clear that I never shirked military duty?" In other instances an embattled public official may calculate that litigation is the best way to discourage further damaging coverage. Inquirer Executive Editor Gene Roberts believes this is happening in Pennsylvania. Says he: "Public officials are using libel...
...officials, on the other hand, argued that the problem with the June 25 meeting was a lack of advance preparation that could be solved with only a few weeks' delay. But that claim rang hollow. Conceded one U.S. diplomat: "We panic at the thought of a Central American agreement with the Sandinistas...
...been published in the journal Socialist Legality even before the trial took place. But the Soviet evidence against him was overwhelming. In denying Linnas' plea that, in the name of humanity, he not be sent back, a three-judge panel in New York City declared that "noble words . . . ring hollow when spoken by a man who ordered the extermination of innocent men, women and children kneeling at the edge of a mass grave." Last week the Supreme Court in a 6-to-3 vote refused to extend a temporary order blocking the expulsion...