Word: rajiv
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...Moscow on an official visit last week, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi charged that Pakistan's development of an atom bomb was "very close" to fruition. Earlier this month, the Indian leader had 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...
After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by Sikh bodyguards in New Delhi last October, a group of militant Sikhs demonstrated their approval at a rally in Manhattan by chanting "Who's the next? Rajiv Gandhi!" Last week the FBI charged that three Sikhs were planning to carry out that threat by killing Gandhi when the new Prime Minister visits the U.S. June 11 to 15. The FBI said the plot, along with another alleged conspiracy to assassinate Bhajan Lal, chief minister of the northern Indian state of Haryana, was the work of a Sikh extremist group...
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, already beset by unrest in the states of Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir, immediately called his Cabinet into emergency session and ordered special security measures. Police leaves were canceled and troops in battle gear called in to patrol sensitive areas of the capital, particularly the sections along the Yamuna River that have large Sikh populations. President Zail Singh, himself a Sikh, called off a planned state visit to Zambia to be on hand in what the government considered a major emergency...
...suspected the involvement of a "professional hit team" from the Middle East. Police questioned known activists among the 15,000 Afghans who live in New Delhi in an attempt to uncover a possible link between the Khitrichenko shooting and Afghan anger over the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi ordered law-enforcement officials to spare no effort in the search for the assassins. Said a spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs: "We strongly condemn this shocking crime against a representative of a country with which we have the friendliest of relations...
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi last week became the latest in a long line of world leaders who have attempted to mediate an end to a conflict that hardly anyone thinks can be won by either side. "We continue to believe that there can be no military solution," U.S. State Department Spokesman Edward Djerejian declared, "and we call upon Iran to join Iraq in accepting the many international calls for a cease-fire and a negotiated settlement." The problem is that as long as Khomeini, 84, is on the scene, the Iranians are unlikely to enter into negotiations...