Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Safe Bet. Bhutto's troubles are largely of his own making. While Indira Gandhi went down to honest defeat, the Pakistani Prime Minister is reaping the bitter fruits of what was almost certainly a dishonest victory. Bhutto had called elections for much the same reason as the Indian leader. Hand-picked by the generals after Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war over Bangladesh, he had ruled ever since under a state of emergency that, among other things, gagged the press and outlawed political assembly. Last January Bhutto called for elections to give his government a stamp...
...nation's 216 million people, nearly 1 million are descended from the Indian tribes that were sprinkled about the continent when the Europeans first came settling. The Indians, since the confrontation at Wounded Knee in 1890 that marked the end of their serious resistance to the white newcomers, have lived in relative peace amid the prevalent society. They are among the poorest of all national minorities, the most prone to illness, the least educated, the most resistant to assimilation into the mainstream of American life. They have been, as well, the least conspicuous and most docile of minorities-until...
...Indians' declared objectives strike many Americans as naive or quixotic at best, and at worst mischievous. By laying legal claim to some areas that are heavily populated or commercially valuable or both, they have irritated and angered innumerable citizens-many of whom know that whatever the Indian grievance, it cannot be pinned on their late-arriving forefathers. Some Indian claims have created uneasiness and even turmoil in entire towns, paralyzing the real estate business, delaying bond issues, thwarting commercial and housing construction and beclouding future planning. At first the claims aroused amusement; now they are taken seriously. This...
...even though his wife was past the childbearing age. In Delhi, a man of 25 agreed to be sterilized in order to receive medical treatment at a hospital. After a police attack on the Muslim village of Uttawar, southwest of Delhi, 800 vasectomies were performed-giving Uttawar, as the Indian Express noted, "the dubious distinction of probably having every eligible male sterilized." Across North India, villagers often slept in the fields to avoid the sterilization teams, or hid in their houses during...
...survival of the fittest." The assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by an anonymous Frenchman who increased pin production tenfold by instituting the division of labor at his factory. Paper money is of pure Yankee lineage. When Massachusetts soldiers returned from action in the French and Indian War in 1690 they were paid not in coin but in promissory notes that could be traded for goods. The perverse alchemy by which governments turned gold into paper reached its extreme in Germany. Before their calamitous inflation of the early '20s ended, 1 trillion old marks were needed...