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...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...
Nonetheless, there was no shortage of Sikh-related rancor. In the northern Indian state of Haryana, at least three Hindus were killed and 40 injured in violence sparked by Rajiv Gandhi's Sikh peace plan. Part of that program calls for redrawing the boundaries between Haryana and Punjab, where Sikhs form a majority...