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...most impact on the year's events. And we stress: for better or for worse. The Man of the Year is not our version of the Nobel Peace Prize nor an attempt at canonization. It is a news judgment. Some subjects have been men of peace, like the Mahatma Gandhi (1930) and Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). Others have been evil, like Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942) and Adolf Hitler (1933). We have also had several Women of the Year, including Queen Elizabeth II and, for 1986, President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines...
...least 134 people died in election-related violence. Because of widespread rigging, new voting was ordered in 1,485 polling stations, including 97 in Amethi, Rajiv Gandhi's constituency in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Ultimately, Gandhi was declared the winner over Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and no relation to Rajiv. But 20 of Rajiv's 59 ministers were defeated, a measure of the Congress Party's steep decline...
...Mahatma Dogma, From Good Homes, Scrappy Joe, Curtis--Green Street...
...became Prime Minister in 1984. But he claimed in an interview with TIME late last year that India had no desire to dominate its neighbors: "We don't think in terms of dominance, we don't think in terms of spheres of influence. The right direction was what Gandhiji, Mahatma Gandhi, gave us. I see India today as being one of the prime movers toward a nonviolent, nonnuclear world...
Despite India's pacifist roots in the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Indians crying "Ban the bomb!" are a minority. "If you are living in a world of nuclear powers, then you must have it ((the bomb))," says Krishnaswamy Subrahmanyam, leader of the pronuke lobby...