Word: rajiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after Carbide's announcement, the government of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi called the settlement "totally unacceptable." The New Delhi goverment insisted that it would only agree to an amount that would "fully and fairly compensate all the victims." Indian officials privately deemed that figure to be in the $700 million to $1 billion range...
...acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, who has replaced Palme as Social Democratic Party leader and will probably be named Prime Minister next week. Carlsson will speak at funeral services for Palme, scheduled for March 15 at Stockholm's city hall. A panoply of world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, will attend. In keeping with the slain Prime Minister's disdain for dictatorships, five countries--Chile, Afghanistan, Paraguay, Kampuchea and South Africa--were pointedly excluded from the ceremonies...
Elsewhere in New Delhi, the reception was tepid. The Pope's meeting with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi lasted just 20 minutes. Indian officials released little information about the meeting, which some observers interpreted as evidence that the government aimed to downplay the Pope's trip. John Paul's multireligious gathering at the Indira Gandhi stadium produced such lengthy oratory that by the time the Pope spoke, hundreds had already gone home...
Like Flanagan, student activist Rajiv Menon tries to politicize the Dartmouth student body, though Menon has tried to swing the Big Green to the left. He knows that his task is a difficult...
...hierarchical organization that decides all of its policy by consensus, agreed that years of forums, speeches, and referendums were not enough. "We had gone through the proper channels, but nobody had opened their ears," says Rajiv Menon, an outspoken member...