Word: rajiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kashmir's 20,000-ft.-high Siachen Glacier, where at least 100 Indian soldiers have since died every year. By the summer of 1985, for the first time since the 1960s, Indian jawans penetrated into unoccupied and disputed territory along the China-India border, provoking what Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi later called an "eyeball-to-eyeball" confrontation with China...
...elections in Tamil Nadu, one of India's most populous states, looked like a perfect opportunity for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to reverse the failing fortunes of his ruling Congress (I) Party. The opposition was badly split, and a secret poll showed Congress vying for the lead. Smelling victory, Gandhi visited the state four times in three weeks...
...separatist guerrillas from Sri Lanka, apparently in the pay of Maldivian elements hostile to Gayoom. The President issued pleas for military intervention from India and the U.S. as well as Britain, which held Maldives as a protectorate from 1887 until 1965. Following an emergency Cabinet meeting, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi dispatched some 1,600 troops to restore order in Male and commanded navy warships to head toward Maldivian waters. Paratroopers arrived less than twelve hours later, landing aboard two Soviet-built IL-76 transport aircraft at the national airport on Hulule, a few hundred yards off Male. Within minutes...
Though the possibility of storming the temple was not ruled out, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi seemed hesitant. His mother and predecessor, Indira Gandhi, had ordered the move in 1984, and it resulted in her assassination by Sikhs. Yet the new standoff probably ended the Prime Minister's policy of appeasement. Since Gandhi freed 45 imprisoned Sikh militants two months ago, some 550 people have been killed in terrorist-related violence...
...India, which is thought to be thirsty for deuterium oxide for its two reactors and four nuclear power plants. Norway will not export heavy water to India because that country has not signed the 1968 Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Asked about the missing liquid, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said, "We have got enough heavy water of our own. We don't need to get it from outside...