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...chaos by persuading 84 people to join him in running as independent candidates. Having somehow been appeased, however, the malcontent withdrew from the race and the 84 others followed his example. And in the impoverished northern backwater of Amethi, where Prime Minister Gandhi was pitted against Maneka Gandhi, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay, sleepy villages came alive with Rajiv buttons, Rajiv banners, Rajiv posters and Rajiv hats. YOU LOOK AFTER THE COUNTRY, RAJIV, advised a sign on a mud- brick wall. WE'LL LOOK AFTER AMETHI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India a Landslide for Gandhi | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Anthony Russo, a co-defendant with Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon-papers case and a friend of Cooperman's, defends the physicist as "a humanitarian" and claims he was "assassinated" by "right-wing military Vietnamese death squads" in Southern California. Cooperman's widow bitterly resents the allegations of espionage and homosexuality. "I'm being asked continually to defend my husband," she says. "I'm not the victim any more. I'm the accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting the Victim on Trial | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...With a despairing love affair, a troubled youth and an anguished widow kindle a circle of warmth against the encircling chill of Northern Ireland's mad terrors. Director Pat O'Connor turns their tragedy into a strangled cry from the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '84: Cinema | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...have been a widow for less than a month. One day when I was feeling particularly sad, I went to my husband's office, turned on his automatic answering machine, then hurried to the nearest public telephone. I dialed the office number and heard my husband's deep, mellow voice. It was the best medicine that could have been prescribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1984 | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...absence was scarcely noticed by the 150 invited guests. China's Ambassador to Washington, Zhang Wenjin, continued to hold court in one corner, studiously refusing to note the presence of the legendary General Claire Chennault's widow Anna (Chennault was longtime air adviser to the Nationalists). Former Cabinet Officer Richard Schweiker, now head of an insurance trade group, went right on greeting old political friends. After all, like Louis B. Mayer and his famous meetings, Washington's power elite does not attend a party-it takes a party. For that, the presence of the host is hardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oiling Washington's Wheels | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

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