Word: sharma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such pressures building around her, Mrs. Gandhi was cool and composed when she spoke with New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin and Stringer K.K. Sharma last week in the first interview she has granted to a foreign publication since her dramatic defeat six months ago. But she refused to answer any questions about specific cases before the courts and government commissions of inquiry on the ground that she might be held in contempt of court. Excerpts from the hour-long interview...
...mosquitoes that carry malaria, spraying ponds, swamps and other breeding areas, and even sending health teams into homes to track down the insects. For a while, the campaign to combat malaria was spectacularly successful. "If you just wrote DDT on the wall, mosquitoes used to die," says Dr. M.I.D. Sharma, commissioner of India's rural health services. The disease that once made vast stretches of the Himalayan foothills practically uninhabitable almost disappeared from many communities. Formerly infested areas were opened to development, and governments began to phase out the spraying programs, diverting resources to seemingly more pressing health problems...