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...Gandhi's security guards, opened fire on the Prime Minister while she was walking down a path near her residence. Kehar and Balbir, neither of whom was at the assassination scene, were accused of being part of a conspiracy to murder Gandhi, who was succeeded by her son Rajiv...
...first anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. In New Delhi there was sadness as an estimated 500,000 people gathered, amid tight security, on the sprawling lawns of the New Delhi Boat Club to hear her son and successor, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, compare his mother's "sacrifices" with those of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who led India's drive for independence from Britain. Wearing a bulletproof vest and standing near an 80-ft.-high picture of his mother, the Prime Minister declared that Indira Gandhi was "not my mother alone, but the mother...
...organization's continuing symbolic importance will be reaffirmed this week, when the largest gathering of world leaders in history--some 80 heads of state and government, including President Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India --congregate at U.N. headquarters in New York City to honor the 40th anniversary of the ratification of the U.N. Charter. Reagan and about 25 other leaders are expected to sit down together on Wednesday at a diplomatically designed round table in the delegate lounge for what may be the ultimate power lunch. Throughout the week, the visiting potentates...
...year since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was gunned down in her garden by two Sikh bodyguards, her son and successor Rajiv has demonstrated that he inherited more than just a name from the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for all but five years since independence in 1947. A former pilot who once shunned politics, the young Gandhi, 41, has displayed a deft touch in guiding both foreign and domestic policy. His most recent triumph came in the troubled state of Punjab, where voters endorsed parties that supported a settlement Gandhi had negotiated with moderate Sikh leaders...
...east where they constitute a majority. The nearly two million Tamils in these regions, most of them Hindu, complain of persecution at the hands of the country's 12 million Sinhalese, who are predominantly Buddhist. The Tamils' main hope for the future now rests with Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who helped arrange the latest cease-fire. Tamil leaders are pressing Gandhi to persuade Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene to grant them substantial autonomy, and thus put an end to the bloody conflict...