Word: indians
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...state's sitting Senators, Chuck Schumer. There, as Schumer put it, she "chimed in." Then last week, some pro-Israeli activists publicly urged her to seek the freedom of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. And G.O.P. Congressman Thomas Reynolds wants her to take on the Justice Department over Cayuga Indian claims in the Finger Lakes area. Meanwhile, she has not heard the last from Puerto Rico: its New York allies are asking the First Lady to weigh in on a half-century-long dispute over Navy bombardment of a tiny island off the commonwealth's east coast...
...said religious claims cannot be used to justify violating laws as long as those laws apply to everyone of every faith, neutrally. In the case at hand, Scalia wrote that Native Americans do not have the right to break antidrug laws even though peyote use is part of some Indian faiths...
...India, an Italian woman who did not even become an Indian citizen until her mid-30s has suddenly been elevated to head of the Congress Party and leading candidate for Prime Minister. Yet Sonia Gandhi is not even a member of Parliament. Her chief qualification? Choice of spouse. Her late husband was Rajiv Gandhi, slain Prime Minister, himself the most recent example of India's experiment in monarchical rule within a democratic shell. The line is almost unbroken. The first Prime Minister (Nehru) begat a Prime Minister (daughter Indira) who begat another (son Rajiv). His children being too young...
DUKE OF SLUR It took Buckingham Palace less than three hours to issue an apology after the Duke of Edinburgh, touring an electronics company, said a fuse box looked like it was "put in by an Indian." The palace has had practice. Some of the Duke's bons mots...
DIED. NIRAD CHAUDHURI, 101, Indian-born author critical of the New India promoted by Gandhi and Nehru; in Oxford, England. The Autobiography of the Unknown Indian (1951) cemented his reputation as an astute chronicler of the knotty relationship between England and India. Born into the Bengal Hindu aristocracy, he rued the decline of the Bengal Renaissance, a movement he hoped would establish India as the Western country of his dreams...