Word: singhs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invest in India. Plan ning Minister Asoka Mehta, 55, intends to cut back on bureaucratic state control of business, and took on the added portfolio of chemicals and petroleum in order to give new impetus to the drive to build more artificial-fertilizer plants in India. Commerce Minister Dinesh Singh, 41, intends to push Indian sales to Western Europe...
Some Second Thoughts. The strange saga of Svetlana actually began in December when the Russians gave her permission to fly to New Delhi with the ashes of her late lover Brajesh Singh, a member of a distinguished Indian political family and a Communist who had worked at a Soviet publishing house. In India, Svetlana visited the Singh family, scattered her companion's remains on the waters of the Ganges. Then, one day last week, she quietly slipped into the American embassy and flabbergasted American officials by requesting asylum...
Inside one of the temples lay the man who had started it all: Sant (Saint) Fateh Singh, 56, the chief leader of India's 7,800,000 Sikhs. Though weakened from nine days of fasting, he, too, was scheduled for burning. He had pledged to immolate himself the next day, unless the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi granted his people new concessions...
...were made ready to hold the martyrs in the flames, and many of the 2,000 Sikhs in the temple compound began to weep. Then, with only 30 minutes left, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament strode dramatically into the compound. Himself a Sikh, Speaker Sardar Hukam Singh announced that he brought new proposals from Indira Gandhi for a settlement...
...Indira's other ministerial switches, Swaran Singh, 59, went from the Foreign Office to Chavan's old post at Defense. His place in foreign affairs was taken by Mahomedali Currim Chagla, 66, an Oxford-educated Moslem who has served as ambassador to both the U.S. and Great Britain. Chagla's vacant spot in Education went, in turn, to Fakhruddin Ahmed, 61, whose old post as Minister for Irrigation and Power will be filled temporarily by one of his senior assistants...