Word: lais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the opposition in Parliament last week urged a vote of no confidence against him, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri took it calmly. He said, "If all the people around me talk highly of me, my feet will not remain on the ground, and I will not know my mistakes and rectify them." Flowing Night Soil. During his three months in office, punctuated by a heart attack, diminutive Shastri has grappled vainly with a serious food crisis. And now huge floods, unusual even for India's monsoon season, are surging over seven states, from Assam in the east...
China watchers like to keep tabs on the top dozen men of the Communist Politburo. Last week they were asking each other, "What has happened to Chou En-lai?" Peking's Premier has not been seen at a public function for more than a month. He returned from his tour of Africa last February looking tired and sickly, and he is known to have rested for two weeks in southwest ern China before resuming his duties...
...Hong Kong, en route home, the leader of a Nigerian delegation to a Peking science conference said that he was told that Chou En-lai was "on a holiday." As evidence that Chou is not in disgrace or about to be purged, his wife, Teng Yingchao, was official host ess last week to the wives of a visiting Cambodian delegation, and Chou's name recently appeared in its proper official order in a congratulatory cable sent to Ho Chi Minh in honor of the 19th anniversary of North Viet Nam's independence...
Many China watchers conclude that Chou may be seriously ill, and perhaps is under treatment by the Italian specialist in heart ailments who was recently summoned to China supposedly to treat Party Boss Mao Tse-tung. There remains one other possibility: Chou En-lai may be in seclusion preparing the groundwork for the often postponed party congress, which has not met since 1956, though supposed to assemble every four years...
...seemed united and resolute. Indians swarmed to enlist, pledged their hoarded gold to the government, and willingly accepted a hike of income taxes by as much as 450% . Since then the course has been downhill. Nehru's illness and death were followed by the accession of tiny, introspective Lai Bahadur Shastri as Prime Minister. Almost immediately, Shastri himself suffered a heart attack; and although he seems recovered, he has stayed close to Delhi, making no attempts to travel and show himself to the Indian masses, who will not give their loyalty to a remote and unknown figure...