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...Britain, only recently has she begun to enjoy press coverage at home. Over the past month, the nightly TV news program Vremya has three times run footage of the General Secretary's wife. Last week, as she played hostess to visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia, many Soviets seemed more interested in Raisa's comings and goings than in the political and economic results of conversations between Gandhi and Gorbachev. "Raisa may not be as glamorous as Nancy Reagan," said one elderly Moscow woman, "but she's nice looking, she's well dressed...
Dozens of local reporters and national television media scrambled to make 11 p.m. news broadcasts with stories of torture, rape and death squads from "Estella Ramirez," "Saul" and "Sonia"-pseudonyms for real life survivors of war-torn Central America...
...Actress Sonia Braga, 34, seems to have a penchant for multiples on the screen. In her most famous role, the Brazilian Loren played Dona Flor, she of the two husbands. And now Braga has a three-part undertaking. In Kiss of the Spider Woman, two prisoners, played by Raul Julia and William Hurt, pass time in jail as Hurt's character recounts the plots of early Hollywood movies he has seen, including one about a French chanteuse named Leni Lamaison and another about the title Spider Woman. Braga plays both, as well as Julia's girlfriend...
...compound at 1 Safdarjang Road in New Delhi, the Prime Minister's official residence. There are two bungalows within the compound, one containing offices and various public rooms, the other serving as the Prime Minister's private quarters, where she lived with her son Rajiv, her daughter-in-law Sonia and their two children, Rahul and Priyanka. Rajiv was off on a political trip to the state of West Bengal, preparing the ruling Congress (I) Party for national elections that are due to be held by mid-January 1985. As Mrs. Gandhi's sole surviving son, Rajiv, 40, was also...
When she first heard the shots in the garden below, Rajiv's wife Sonia rushed frantically down a flight of stairs screaming, "Mummy! Oh, my God, Mummy!" Already, guards were starting to pick up Mrs. Gandhi's body, her orange sari soaking in blood. Led by her longtime personal assistant, R.K. Dhawan, they carried her to her white, Indian-made Ambassador car. Sonia cradled Mrs. Gandhi's head in her lap as the auto sped off to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital, a short distance away...