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...Gandhi's election as preposterous, complaining that her group had illegally appropriated the name of the rightful Congress Party. In swift retaliation, nine members of the party executive committee expelled Mrs. Gandhi from the party that she had dominated for over a decade. Declared one committee member, Priya Ranjan Das Munshi: "The cancer is out, and we are not carrying the burden of Mrs. Gandhi any more." In reply, Mrs. Gandhi expelled Munshi and the entire executive committee from her Congress Party...
PHOTOGRAPHER Priya Ramrakha, whose pictures have illustrated many of TIME's stories- most recently those about the Nigerian civil war and the occupation of Czechoslovakia- was anxious to get out of Africa. He was a British citizen born of Indian parents, and he no longer felt wholly welcome in his native Kenya, which lately has turned against people of Asian origin. More important, he was determined to demonstrate that his camera could capture subjects more subtle than the violence he had been covering. But before he moved on, he wanted to finish one more assignment for TIME: another look...
...days he tried to hitch a plane ride to the Biafran battle zone. Finally, he talked himself onto a decrepit DC-4 that took him to Port Harcourt. Along with CBS correspondent Morley Safer and 20 federal troops, Priya went looking for action. On a road outside Owerri, Biafran soldiers opened up from ambush, and Priya was hit in the arm and back. Safer and some of the Nigerian troopers carried him to an aid station, but he died an hour later...
...week, messages of condolence have been coming from Priya's colleagues and friends all over the world. "He was a very brave man and a good friend," Jonathan Randal of the New York Times cabled from Warsaw. "An excellent traveling companion in dodgy places," said Safer. "Priya," explained TIME's London bureau chief Jim Bell, "was one of those quiet guys whom everyone liked. I never heard anyone say an unkind word about Priya, and I never heard Priya say an unkind word about anyone else...
...TIME Correspondent James Wilde, a veteran of Algeria and Viet Nam, and for Photographer Priya Ramrakha, such hardships are hardly unusual. On and off, they spent four days with a Biafran commando unit behind enemy lines, crawled through the brush with a Biafran sergeant on a reconnaissance mission, joined white mercenaries leading a dangerous ambush. What really troubled Wilde about this assignment was what he saw happening to Biafra and its people. "A chaplain travels from village to village administering last rites to the dying and blessing the heaps of the already dead," wrote Wilde. "Vultures screech in the brooding...