Word: mahatma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old war and begin pulling out. But the Soviets have so far refused to fix a firm timetable for their withdrawal. The rebels, meanwhile, seemed determined to keep up the pressure, as they demonstrated late last week at the funeral of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and in later years an anti-mujahedin leftist. Khan died in Pakistan at age 98 and was buried in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. Afghan and Pakistani authorities allowed a funeral procession of some 2,000 vehicles to enter Afghanistan under Soviet military escort for the burial, which...
...Williams stalks a concert stage, conning inspiration from the ether. In a nightclub, a customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than this...
...inspirational leader in prison, and the movement he leads may turn into a crusade. That happened to Mahatma Gandhi in India and to Martin Luther King Jr. in the U.S. In 1986 the mantle of leadership settled heavily upon South Africa's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela. As the divided country of 5 million whites and 28 million non-whites slipped deeper into repression and confrontation, he emerged as never before as the spiritual head of the struggle against apartheid...
...Military Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Soviet leader was welcomed as a "crusader for peace" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and cheered by schoolchildren and villagers who lined the route from the airport into New Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While the two men got down to business, Raisa Gorbachev visited museums and art galleries and attended cultural functions arranged by Gandhi's Italian-born wife Sonia...
...center, both a memorial to her husband and a training center on the methods and techniques of non-violent change, contains the papers of both Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, and hosts lectures, symposia and theatrical productions geared to teach problem solving through non-violent means...