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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth to save the world." Once, when TIME Correspondent James Shepherd asked him why he always seemed so sure of his own infallibility, Desai replied calmly, "Because I'm an instrument of God." Friends say he has considerably mellowed with age and from his recent period in prison, where he passed the time peacefully spinning yarn, memorizing the Bhagavad-Gita, updating his autobiography and writing about natural medicine...
...avoid being "vindictive or vengeful" toward Mrs. Gandhi or her fallen comrades. He announced that she was free to live in her government residence "as long as she wished" (which was only fair, since she had never taken away his official home even during the months he was in prison). In another extraordinary gesture by the victors, J.P. Narayan-despite his poor health-paid a courtesy call on Mrs. Gandhi. The two old adversaries chatted amiably for a half-hour...
When one of our group asked his guide about a nondescript gray building next to a children's playground downtown, he was told only that it "belongs to the government." In fact, it is Hoa Lo prison, the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," where captured Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed...
...least, Carter's human rights campaign has not yielded any significant positive results. TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark reports from Moscow that the White House rhetoric "has not demonstrably discouraged the Soviets from cracking down on dissidents. Although ailing Dr. Mikhail Shtern was released from a Ukrainian prison last week (and this may have some connection to the approach of the Vance visit), it might be argued that this was more than offset by the almost simultaneous arrest of Jewish Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, the 29-year-old computer expert who has been an unofficial spokesman for the human rights movement...
More than 90% of Grambling's students come from poor families, and Grambling itself is not much richer. Modern six-story dorms have replaced the converted prison barracks that once housed students, and new classroom buildings have sprouted in what was once farm land. Yet Grambling still looks like a poor cousin of the originally all-white Louisiana Tech. University, only three miles away...