Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Child of the Nation The remark was not only ungallant, it was imprudent. For when it comes to tough-mindedness, Mrs. Gandhi is at least a match for Yahya Khan. As the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, she was carefully groomed for leadership and grew up an adored and beloved "child of the nation." From her father she inherited a sense of grace under pressure, but where he was the idealist, she is much more the pragmatist. As one political commentator observed: "Her father was a dreamer who did not act decisively. The people loved Nehru, but ihey are impressed...
Indira agreed to adopt a wait-and-see course. Only the week before, Yahya had made a mildly hopeful remark that "if the nation demands his [Mujib's] release, I will do it." Simultaneously, four appeals for Mujib's release, all of suspiciously obscure origin, appeared in the government-supervised press in West Pakistan. On her return to New Delhi. Mrs. Gandhi appealed for restraint and patience...
Pressing the Point. Lest anyone think he had softened, however, Connally lost few opportunities to drive home the U.S. position. At a press conference, a plaintive question about the U.S. surcharge prompted him to remark: "You can buy a Toyota in California for $2,000. You can buy an American-made Pinto there for approximately $2,000, but that same Pinto here in Japan would cost you $4,000. That is slightly more than...
...delaying a settlement. He noted that he had to postpone the next meeting of the finance ministers of ten major non-Communist trading powers, a group of which he is chairman, from Nov. 22 until early December because "the European countries have had difficulty getting a common position." That remark touched a sensitive nerve in Common Market countries, which have been charging that the U.S. is dragging its feet on solving the world's monetary woes. The Europeans at this point agree only that a solution must involve a formal U.S. devaluation of the dollar, through an increase...
...Nixon diverted some attention from the moon mission to more mundane matters, he would have sensed the significance of the Hanoi delegate's remark...