Word: shastri
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...company of Moro and his party, which included Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani. And he probably made more of a show of it than usual because he was under criticism for having postponed the visits of Pakistan's President Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri...
...neutralization (perhaps starting at a conference over Cambodia), this was clearly not the time. In fact, Lyndon Johnson appeared to be getting fed up with all the unsolicited advice pouring in from nervous Nellies. Shortly after Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri demanded an end to American bombings of North Viet Nam as a precondition to peace talks, the White House asked them to postpone the trips to the United States that each had planned this spring. Washington's official excuse: "the congressional work load...
...first category belongs India's Shastri, who tries to mediate between antagonists rather than strike at the roots of their antagonism. Malaysia's jovial Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, also finds it hard to be a true national leader because the bulk of his support comes from his anti-Chinese fellow Malays-even though he warns them, "You can't throw all of the Chinese into...
...volatile southern state of Kerala, the ruling Congress Party of mild-mannered Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri last week faced its first electoral test since he took office last June. The party had reason to fear the result since India has for months been racked by a succession of woes, ranging from food shortages and floods to corruption and the bloody riots occasioned by the attempt to impose Hindi as the national language...
...results came in, Shastri summoned a midnight Cabinet meeting and it seemed likely that the pro-Peking Communists would be denied their electoral victory. As it is, 25 of their winning candidates are already in jail, having been imprisoned without trial since last December under an emergency decree issued at the time of Red China's invasion of India's Himalayan border. Shastri may again arrange for an appointed governor to rule Kerala. If he does, Kerala's Red boss, E.M.S. Nam-boodiripad, has said he will set off statewide demonstrations against the government...