Word: rao
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...watch the union of two of the largest Hasidic dynasties on closed-circuit television. According to custom, the bride and groom had met only three times prior to the ceremony. EXPELLED. ARJUN SINGH, 64, minister turned outspoken critic of the government of India's Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao; from the ruling Congress Party for six years; in New Delhi. Last December, Singh resigned his Human Resources Development Ministry post after devastating party losses in two state elections and became Rao's principal political rival--accusing him, among other shortcomings, of failing to tackle widespread corruption. The party's disciplinary...
...month later, Seshan issued yet another diktat. Ignoring the Rao government's wishes, he decided to stagger balloting in four important northern states over a month, so that 40,000 troops could be deployed in each state to prevent vote rigging. The government then tried to weaken Seshan's power by appointing the two additional election commissioners to outvote his decisions, but the embattled commissioner won a supreme court injunction preventing the action. Next, Congress hit on the strategy of a constitutional amendment. V.C. Shukla, Rao's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, argued that the reason was merely that "we want...
...blockbuster $54.4 million to settle class-action charges that it refused to serve black customers or treated them shabbily. A day later, in a $75,000 settlement, the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston publicly apologized for assigning an all-white staff to serve visiting Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao...
...lecture at Sanders was part of Rao'sweek-long trip to the United States, which willcontinue in Washinton, D.C. today when the primeminister addresses a joint session of Congress...
...Rao will meet with President Clinton at theWhite House tomorrow...