Word: nehru
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...crash kills the heir apparent to the House of Nehru...
...powerful figure in Indian politics, after his strong-willed mother, and by far the most controversial. While Rajiv, a commercial airline pilot, showed little interest in politics, Sanjay became his mother's chief political adviser, even as she had been the closest confidante to her widowed father Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister...
...funeral took place in New Delhi's Shanti Vana Park, less than 100 yards from a memorial to Nehru. The cortege arrived at 6:30 p.m., with the family riding in a jeep. There was only one slipup: Rajiv began to put incense and camphor on the body before the flag of the Congress Party (I) (for Indira) had been removed. When this was done, mantras were chanted and the pyre...
...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...