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...Still, Singh and the Congress Party have lived to fight another day. The confidence vote was called to resolve a bitter dispute over the administration's support for a civilian nuclear-technology agreement between India and the U.S. India's two main leftist parties pulled out of Singh's coalition government over the pact, which they say makes India subservient to U.S. strategic interests. Singh, who argued nuclear power is needed for continued economic development, can now push ahead with the deal, which still needs the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. Congress...
...colonialism. Instead, he took up socialist realism, and put his brush at the service of the country's communist party. By the 1960s, he had switched from propaganda to Pop Art. Toward the end of his life - disenchanted by Suharto's right-wing regime and shunned by leftist artists who felt he had betrayed them - Sudjojono turned inward, experimenting with Expressionism and drawing partial inspiration from Balinese folklore...
Singh put his Congress Party's majority on the line to defend his government's decision to pursue a controversial nuclear deal with the United States. The two main leftist parties pulled out of Singh's coalition government in protest against the deal, which they said would make India beholden to the strategic interests of the U.S. Singh kept his majority by forging a series of alliances, first with the Samajwadi Party, a powerful player in the key northern state of Uttar Pradesh, and then with a series of smaller regional parties. "They ayes have it," said Somnath Chatterjee...
...Bush, who headed the President's National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, said he was publicizing the order in an effort to make ''every American understand the very real link between drugs and terrorism.'' Bush charged that Nicaragua's Sandinista regime was engaged in the drug trade and that the leftist guerrillas who waged a bloody assault on the Colombia Palace of Justice last year destroyed U.S. extradition requests for Colombia's most notorious narcotics traffickers. ''Now we must convey that when you buy drugs,'' said Bush, ''you could also very well be subsidizing terrorist activities overseas.'' The armed forces have...
...With the confidence vote looming, it's unlikely Congress politicians will be drawing the public's attention to Singh's unpopular nuclear deal. The vote is expected to be close. Singh plugged the hole in his coalition created by the withdrawal of the leftist parties by teaming up with the democratic socialist Samajwadi Party, whose 39 seats almost make up for votes lost to the left. (One Samajwadi Party leader, Amar Singh, is a pro-American industrialist who has a framed picture of the Brooklyn Bridge hanging in his office.) With about a dozen lawmakers undecided, the Prime Minister...