Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes according to schedule, the President will place a wreath at New Delhi's Rajhat shrine to Mohandas Gandhi, outline to the Indian Parliament his hopes for helping the world's poor and explore with Prime Minister Morarji Desai ways to improve U.S.-Indian relations. Under Desai's predecessor, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi warmed up to the Soviets and cold-shouldered the U.S., particularly after President Nixon's "tilt" in favor of Pakistan during the 1971 war with India. Desai and Carter will talk about how the U.S. could aid the Indian economy. The President...
...five support bases equipped with light planes and sophisticated radio gear, have been peaceably at work for 22 years. But the government of Brazil has suddenly announced that in 1978 it will not renew permits for S.I.L. field teams to work in remote areas administered by the National Indian Foundation. No official explanation has been offered...
...eight men and four women said Friday the Wamponoags were not a tribe in August 1976 when they filed the suit, nor in 1790, the date of a federal law that forms the basis for the land claim went into effect, nor in 1869 or 1870, when the Indian district of Mashpee was incorporated as a town...
...Wamponoags based their suit on the Indian Non-Intercourse Act of 1790, which prohibited the transfer of Indian lands without the consent of the federal government. When the Massachusetts legislature incorporated Mashpee as a town in 1870, the Indians claim it violated this law and so the land in Mashpee belongs to them...
...France, like most coastal nations, has begun to claim 200-mile economic zones in territorial waters off both the mainland and its remaining overseas possessions. If these are recognized internationally, tiny Tromelin would provide France with a lucrative stake in whatever wealth lies beneath that area of the Indian Ocean...