Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Green for "Go." From the start, however, miscalculation by the program's planners set back the whole campaign. Indian experts now laugh at the Nehru government's drive to control births through the rhythm method. Even then it was known that peasant women, because of their exhausting chores and lack of nourishment, usually have irregular menstrual cycles. Moreover, the colored beads that the government distributed to the peasants for keeping track of the days-green for "go" and red for "stop"-failed for the astonishing reason that many women never looked at them until the lights were...
...teens, two jail terms during the independence struggle, experience as a former chief minister of the highly industrialized state of Maharashtra, which includes Bombay, and an excellent record as a Cabinet minister. He was originally summoned to New Delhi and given the Defense post in 1962 by Jawaharlal Nehru, who needed a replacement for Leftist Krishna Menon in the dark days after Red China's attack. Chavan rammed through an effective rebuilding of the army. Now he was clearly out to rebuild the Home Ministry's gentle image. His first major orders in his new job were...
...officially created out of a part of Punjab, and its birth brought forth none of the communal rioting that had earlier been feared. The new state marked the end of a 19-year campaign by India's 7,000,000 Sikhs for a territory of their own. Jawaharlal Nehru resisted the demand mainly on the ground that such a state would be essentially a religious entity. But the Sikhs argued that they were the only ones among India's 14 major linguistic groups that had not been given a state...
...Nehru's daughter was more sympathetic. Last March, when she approved the Sikh request, the issue provoked bloody riots by Hindus in Punjab. Last week all was peaceful. Under the solution, Hindus and Sikhs alike were given a separate part of Punjab, and will share the city of Chandigarh as a joint capital. An imaginary vertical line runs through the Corbusier-designed secretariat building so that both sides...
Only a decade ago at Bandung, 29 nonaligned leaders gathered for ten days to prescribe a cure for the cold war's ills. Since then, many of the non-aligned world's leaders have fallen: India's Nehru is dead; Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Indonesia's Sukarno have dropped from supreme power. Indeed, nonalignment itself badly needs redefinition: the former nonaligneds have hardly anyone left to nonalign with...