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...affirmed that such an achievement by his country's chief regional rival "will completely change the present military balance on the subcontinent. At no cost will we allow our integrity and security to be compromised." In 1974, India shocked the world with a "peaceful" underground nuclear explosion in the Rajasthan Des- ert; Gandhi's pronouncements hold out the threat that India might resume testing, perhaps even begin to build and stockpile nuclear arms...
Over the next twelve hours, at least 19 explosions went off in other public , places in the Indian capital--bus stations and bus stops, shops, even a ricksha or two--and soon reports flowed in of similar incidents in nearby states. Eleven people were killed in Haryana, two in Rajasthan, and 22 in Uttar Pradesh, including 14 people who perished in blasts that ripped through two trains. One was the Himachal Express, bound from New Delhi for points north. It was pulling into the station at Meerut, 37 miles northeast of the capital, when a blast ripped through...
...most of the northwestern state of Punjab. Several hundred Bhindranwale loyalists who had managed to escape the siege of the temple continued to wage hit-and-run attacks against troops in Amritsar. They also looted shops, set fires and killed civilians. An additional 100 Sikh extremists surfaced in Rajasthan, a state near the Pakistani border, where they called upon Sikh members of the army to rebel. Some of them did defect, while other Sikhs apparently donned army uniforms in an attempt to infiltrate and disrupt the front-line troops that shield India against potential attacks from its bitter enemy, Pakistan...
...four rainless years, as many as 20,000 peasants have abandoned the nine-state northeastern area of Brazil for crowded urban centers along the coast. There, they are paid 35? an hour and condemned to life in shantytowns. Some 50,000 people fled India's northwestern state of Rajasthan (pop. 34.2 million) last spring; those who stayed are often forced to sell their cattle for less than $1 a head or to smuggle them across the border into Muslim Pakistan, where they may fetch $50. In Ethiopia's rugged mountainous region of Gondar, 200 people have been fleeing...
Although India has devoted $810 million to drought relief, all too often the assistance has been haphazardly administered. At one time 40% of the trucks used for transporting water into stricken areas were out of commission. Nor has there been much long-term planning. Although the state of Rajasthan has seen almost no water since 1978, the authorities have been slow in implementing schemes to distribute water. So far, says a Madras journalist, "man is the villain...