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Both the hyperbole and the hypersensitivity of that statement are typical of Mrs. Gandhi, who came to power in 1966 after the sudden death of her father's successor as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri. In choosing Mrs. Gandhi, who had served briefly as Minister of Information and Broadcasting under Shastri, the ruling bosses of the Congress Party apparently hoped to acquire a politically popular but compliant Prime Minister...
...parliamentary elections that returned her to office for a second term. As a result, she was barred from her seat in Parliament and disqualified from holding elective office for six years. Her lawyers immediately announced that they would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, and Justice Jag Mohan Lai Sinha issued a stay of 20 days pending the appeal. Even if it is overturned, Judge Sinha's decision is likely to have far-reaching consequences for Prime Minister Gandhi. As the Times of India put it in an editorial, "The immediate impact will be to detract from...
Marcos could hardly have fitted Peking's script better. He gave a banquet speech full of effusive praise for China, labeling it "the leader of the Third World and a moral inspiration to all the world and mankind." Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who represented Premier Chou En-lai at the formal banquet, responded with more restraint, commenting simply on the Philippines as "a beautiful and richly endowed country" whose people were "industrious and valiant." Teng wasted no time in getting to China's chief international concern; in his final address he noted that both China...
During the rest of his life, DuBois travelled extensively through the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959 and that same year was honored by Chou En-lai at a birthday dinner in Peking...