Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employed prematurely to close off debate on major, hotly contested legislation, it can stir up the wrath of M.P.s on both sides of the floor. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor government ran into just that kind of resistance when House Leader Michael Foot tried to ram through a guillotine vote to restrict debate on the devolution bill, which would give limited home rule to Scotland and Wales. Furious, 22 rebellious Labor M.P.s joined the opposition long enough to blunt the guillotine motion by 312 to 283, a stunning 29-vote margin; 15 other Laborites abstained...
Aside from Narayan, the opposition's most influential figures are two veteran politicians, each of whom has long aspired to be Prime Minister: Morarji Desai, 81, and Jagjivan Ram, 68. Desai left the ruling party in 1969 after Mrs. Gandhi fired him as Finance Minister. A teetotaling vegetarian who rises at 3 or 4 a.m. and works at his spinning wheel as a Gandhian duty, Desai has been barnstorming the country with a simple message: Mrs. Gandhi's emergency has introduced a "climate of fear," and if she wins again, she will reimpose the full force...
...Ram is the newcomer within the opposition leadership, having quit the party and the Cabinet only last month (TIME, Feb. 14). The spokesman for India's 85 million Untouchables, he is keeping his group separate from the Janata Party, although he has agreed not to field any candidates directly against it. In a jab at Mrs. Gandhi and her ambitious younger son Sanjay, 30, Ram remarked that whatever people may say about Congress Party bossism, they should remember that during the emergency, "the whole country has been ruled by 1½ bosses...
...were born in January or early February, you should count your astrological year as the year before you were born because the lunar calendar does not coincide exactly with the Western solar calendar. For example, if you were born in January, 1956, your sign is the ram, not the monkey...
...Ram [1955, 1967]--You are a sensitive, refined, aesthetic type with considerable talent in all the arts. Your success or failure will depend upon whether you can shepherdall your ability and energy into a single field...