Word: kerala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though markedly willing to defend Russia internationally, she is an anti-Communist at home; it was at her insistence in 1959 that the government finally voted to dissolve the legally elected Communist government that had ruled Kerala state for 27 months. Her temper and her use of Nehru's magical name sometimes get her into trouble. On the hustings during by-election campaigns last summer, she threw temper tantrums when critical crowds heckled her, threatened on one occasion to report the "barbarians" to Daddy...
...Justifying emergency rule when subversion threatens to overthrow a regime. A similar clause was used by Jawaharlal Nehru to impose President's Rule from Delhi on the state of Kerala after it voted Communist in 1957. - And her body, well embalmed, was kept in a hushed room in the C.G.T. Building. After Per&243;n fell, it disappeared. *First stop on a long trail leading to Madrid. Other stops: Paraguay, Panama, followed by residences in lands then ruled by fellow dictators -Perez Jimenez' Venezuela, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Franco's Spain...
...Marx than of Gandhi, more of the Bloomsbury agnostic than the Hindu,† more 19th century radicalism than 20th century reality, all held together by arrogance. His feelings toward colonialism can be traced partly to his birthplace, the town of Calicut on the Malabar coast (now the state of Kerala). "I was born where Vasco da Gama made the first landing by a European in India," Menon says. But he is reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When I die, I want to leave nothing behind." Son of a lawyer...
...Communist state in India, Kerala, has ceased to be Communist...
...million plant that will more than double India's present 18,000-ton aluminum capacity. South of New Delhi, Goodyear was putting in a $12 million tire factory; Firestone and an Indian partner plan another at Bareilly in North India. Nehru himself recently laid a cornerstone in Kerala for a tire plant owned in part by the Dayton Rubber...