Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crash kills the heir apparent to the House of Nehru...
...little history may be in order. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, first used the term "third world" to refer to a group of non-aligned, developing countries that united in an effort to focus world attention away from the cold war rivalry of the superpowers to the problem of inequitable resource distribution between the rich and the poor nations. Culturally, these Third World countries have little in common; their economic and apolitic demands are what unites them...
...could get, including that offered by the West, but always with the proviso that no strings be attached. This foreshadowed the new foreign policy of nonalignment -normal relations with the two superpowers, alliance with neither-that he developed further during the 1950s. With the backing of India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser and Indonesia's Sukarno, the Nonaligned Movement was formally inaugurated in Belgrade...
REVIVALS OF INNOCENCE in the world of contemporary music, though commercially successful, are always brief. The latest, "power pop"--the fusion of the energy of new wave rock'n'roll and the syrupy friendliness of mid '60s tunes--stayed around about as long as Nehru jackets...
...jubilant Indira declared that her party had won "entirely on my name." Indeed, there was little doubt that the country had responded once again to the dynastic magic of the daughter of India's venerated first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Apparently forgotten were her authoritarian ways: the coercive programs of enforced male sterilization and slum clearance that took place during the emergency, the arrest of tens of thousands of political opponents, the censorship of the press. Mrs. Gandhi had successfully appealed to the elemental needs and concerns of India's rural masses with her two election slogans: "Banish...