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THEY CALLED IT KAR SEVA (HOLY WORK), BUT THE consequences were devilish. To the sounds of conch shells and clashing cymbals, a mob of Hindu fanatics wielding pickaxes, crowbars and bare hands descended upon the Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya and razed it. Never mind that the Supreme Court of India, eager to preserve the nation as a secular state in which all religions are respected, had ordered that the mosque be left alone. The existence of the mosque, built by a nobleman of a Mughal Emperor in 1528 on the spot where the Hindu god Rama...
Poulson was not charged, and investigators only know the third member by his computer code name. "Kar...
Khonkar, 41, a former government weatherman, imported 50 London cabs at about $14,000 apiece and set them loose on the route between Jidda and the airport. With a few modifications, Khon-kar's cars carry their passengers in as stately a manner in the desert as they did in the fog. To fend off the heat, their black bodies have been painted white, and air conditioners have been installed. The steering column has been shifted from right to left, and the chuggy diesel motors used in London have been replaced with smoother-running gasoline engines. Although the London...
When TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott arrived at the Presidential Palace in Kabul last week, he found President Babrak Karmal as affable in manner as he was doctrinaire in his pronouncements. At the beginning and the end of a 90-minute interview, the first Kar mal has had with an American journalist, the President and party leader kissed Talbott on both cheeks in the traditional Afghan greeting, urging him to "come back some time and hunt Marco Polo sheep in our beautiful mountains." Karmal spoke mostly in English, which he said he learned in King Zahir's prisons during...
Lessons Learned. Privately, Thais were shocked by the violence, which violated the traditional "Thai kar Thai" (Thai kill Thai) taboo against communal bloodshed. When NARC began arresting "subversives" last month, hundreds began literally running scared-sleeping in a different friend's home every night. To many Thais, NARC's crackdown and its strict press censorship suggested that Seni's paralyzed democracy would be replaced by the kind of lazily corrupt military rule the country had endured in the 1960s and early...