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...NAINA LAL KIDWAI Rainmaker...
...APPOINTED. LAL KRISHNA ADVANI, 74, India's Hindu nationalist Home Minister, as Deputy Prime Minister; in New Delhi. Widely perceived as a right-wing hard-liner, Advani remains the main strategist of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp). He has long been the de facto No. 2 to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and his new designation appears to formalize his position as successor...
...names--even that of Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, a longtime colleague. A Western diplomat characterizes him as "half dead." At a rare press conference last month in Srinagar, the PM tottered onto the podium and apparently had trouble understanding questions. He asked repeatedly for whispered prompts from Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani and stumbled over his replies. Says a B.J.P. official: "He is very alert when he is functional. But there are very few hours like that, and being a Prime Minister, unfortunately, is a 24-hour job." Asked if he suffered from any serious ailment, Vajpayee once replied...
...rare press conference last month in Srinagar, the Prime Minister tottered to the podium?Indian TV crews are asked to film him from the waist up to avoid showing his shuffling gait?to find he had trouble understanding questions, repeatedly relying on whispered prompts from Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani. Even then Vajpayee stumbled over his replies. "He is very alert when he is functional," says one BJP worker. "But there are very few hours like that." Adds one Western diplomat: "We have a lot of conversations about his health. Some of his mannerisms come down to his personal style...
...knew Dartmouth had a deep team, so there was a lot of pressure on [Wadha and Lal],” co-captain Colby Hall said. “Both played amazing squash and made heroic efforts...