Word: swaran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verdict stung. The very next day, Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party lost the Gujarat state elections. The Prime Minister had stumped the state with a vengeance, and had put her personal prestige on the line. At that point, she reportedly wanted to hand over power to Defense Minister Swaran Singh until the Supreme Court could hear her appeal of the Allahabad ruling. But a majority of Congress leaders insisted on Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram as Interim Prime Minister. Rather than risk a party quarrel, Mrs. Gandhi decided to stay on. Last week she was again rebuffed when a Supreme...
...Ford Administration has an opportunity to gain some ground in the Third World. India was singed by Nixon's pro-Pakistani "tilt" during the 1971 Bangladesh war, but New Delhi dealt sympathetically with his departure nevertheless. Indian Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh went out of his way to say that Nixon's "action in resigning is in the best tradition of democracy...
Under the terms of the agreement worked out by Foreign Ministers Kamal Hossein of Bangladesh, Swaran Singh of India and Aziz Ahmed of Pakistan, Bangladesh agreed "as an act of clemency" to drop its plans to try 195 Pakistani prisoners for war crimes. The prisoners will now be returned to Pakistan, along with the remaining 6,500 of the 90,000 P.O.W.s captured during the war and held since then in camps in India. That repatriation, begun last August, is expected to be completed by the end of the month...
...Ahmed gave chief credit for bringing an end to a "painful chapter" in South Asia's history to Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman. Later in the week, Mujib flew into New Delhi for a brief visit after two weeks of medical treatment in Moscow. Added Swaran Singh: "The trials, tribulations and conflicts of our subcontinent will become a thing of the past-something of a bad dream that is best forgotten...
India was less pleased, though, with Bhutto's declaration to the United Nations last week that Pakistan would oppose the admission of Bangladesh until all Pakistani prisoners of war are returned. Indian Foreign Minister Swaran Singh accused Bhutto of making "a crude attempt to nibble" at the agreement signed by India and Pakistan last month for the exchange of all prisoners except 195 charged with war crimes...