Word: shastri
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...guest in the Kremlin, India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, was cooler still. "We were expecting it even earlier," Shastri remarked...
...Pakistani infantry crushed an Indian army outpost at Biar Bet, also occupied a ruined mud-walled fort called Kanjarkot in what India insists is its own territory. India and Pakistan each claimed to have inflicted at least 300 casualties on the other, and Indian Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, looking far tougher than his frail figure indicates, threatened to invade the Pakistani side of the Rann. Both nations began talking of general mobilization...
Pakistan calls the 8,000-sq.-mi. area an inland sea (and indeed during the monsoon season most of it is blanketed with four feet of water from the Arabian Sea), hence feels the boundary should be drawn halfway through the Rann. Shastri last week invoked etymology to prove that the Rann is not a sea but a swamp, deriving as it does from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning "salty marsh." Therefore, the Indian Prime Minister argued, the boundary must remain as drawn by the British way back...
...sure, Johnson was perhaps a bit abrupt in shunting aside the Ayub Khan and Shastri visits. Both men are critics of U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Both felt insulted and expressed their feelings vocally. Last week U.S. officials tried to soothe the pain by saying that both Shastri and Ayub would be welcome some other time; neither seemed particularly anxious to reschedule his trip. But both undoubtedly would...
...satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma and Ceylon were represented only by their ambassadors, and from India came not Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri but Chidambaram Subramaniam, the Food Minister...