Word: singhs
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...Mirror's pages read like a chapter from Tom Peters' In Search of Excellence. In this place of punishment, achievement is possible and highly promoted. The newsmakers in a fall edition of the Mirror were Karta Singh and the other bonsai-club members, who practically blew away the civilian competition at the Minnesota State Fair. "I'm ecstatic about it," Singh told the Mirror. "Winning a blue ribbon motivates me even more, and I think it's a testament to the quality of instruction we're getting...
...which won only 26 of 232 seats in the state assembly. Moreover, the victor, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, was aligned with the National Front, a coalition of parties formed to defeat Gandhi in the national elections to be held later this year. Meanwhile, the Congress chief minister of another state, Arjun Singh, resigned over charges that he profited from funds misappropriated from a lottery held to benefit child-welfare programs. Observed New Delhi's Statesman: "Things are falling apart for Mr. Gandhi...
Nearly three years after they were sentenced to death for the 1984 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, gunman Satwant Singh, 25, and conspirator Kehar Singh, 53, were hanged last week in a New Delhi jail. Satwant Singh was one of the two Sikh bodyguards who shot Mrs. Gandhi; the other was killed in the shootout that followed. Five months earlier the Prime Minister had ordered the Indian army to rout Sikh terrorists holed up in the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. Said an unrepentant Satwant: "I wish that I am born again and again...
...Singh became the sixth foreign hostage to be set free in Lebanon this year, leaving 13 -- including nine Americans -- still in captivity. What his release means for the others, however, remains unclear. Singh and his three colleagues have always been regarded as a group apart. They were abducted by an organization calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which is not known to have engaged in any other kidnapings. Most of the remaining hostages are believed to be held by factions of the pro-Iranian Shi'ite extremist organization known as Hizballah (Party of God), which has some...
...Despite Singh's American ties, moreover, he remains a citizen of India and may have been something of an embarrassment to his captors. The U.S. State Department at first hoped that at least one more of the academic prisoners would be set free, largely because Syrian officials promised that "an American" would be coming out of Beirut. When none appeared, some State Department hostage experts concluded that no further prisoners are likely to be released until a new Administration comes to power. In Paris former Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr claimed that secret arms-for-hostages negotiations were taking place between...