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发表于 2016-7-9 23:21:18 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
  May 21
          Rajiv Gandhi"s murder is being blamed on the Tamil Tigers
          1991: Bomb kills India"s former leader Rajiv Gandhi
          England have
          Rajiv Gandhi, the 46-year-old former Indian prime minister, has been
assassinated.
          He was campaigning for the Congress Party on the second day of voting in
the world"s largest democratic election when a powerful bomb, hidden in a basket
of flowers, exploded killing him instantly.
          At least 14 other people were also killed in the attack in the town of
Sriperumbudur, about 30 miles from Madras, the capital of the southern state of
Tamil Nadu.
          No-one has admitted carrying out the murder but it is being blamed on Mr
Gandhi"s arch enemies, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a violent
guerrilla group fighting for a separate homeland for Tamils on the island of Sri
Lanka.
          End of a dynasty
          Rajiv Gandhi"s death has shocked the world and marks the end of the Nehru
dynasty that had led India for all but five years since independence from
Britain.
          After his brother Sanjay was killed in an air crash in 1980, he gave up his
job as an airline pilot and was elected to Sanjay"s parliamentary seat.
          He became prime minister after his mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated
by her own Sikh bodyguards in 1984.
          Often seen as a reluctant leader, he and his Congress Party won a record
majority later that year.
          He encouraged foreign investment, a freer economy and rejuvenated his own
party, ridding it of his mother"s unelected cronies.
          After he lost the election in 1989, Rajiv Gandhi resigned.
          This time, the Congress Party was expected to win the largest number of
parliamentary seats - but not overall control - against the Hindu BJP Party and
the Janata Dal, now split into two parties.
          The campaign has been marred by sectarian violence between Hindus and
Muslims in what has proved to be the most violent election in Indian history.
Two hundred people have already been killed.
          Rajiv Gandhi"s murder is being blamed on the Tamil Tigers
          1966: Cooper loses to world champ Clay
          Artificially 1969:
          The American Cassius Clay has beaten Britain"s Henry Cooper in the sixth
round of a fight in London to retain the world heavyweight championship.
          Cooper"s hopes of bringing the title back to the UK were predictably dashed
one minute and 38 seconds into the sixth round when the referee stopped the
fight - a deep gash over his left eye forced him to concede victory to
24-year-old Clay.
          "There were two right-hand punches but it was his head that did the
damage." Jim Wicks, Henry Cooper"s Manager said.
          About 40,000 spectators watched at the Arsenal football ground in Highbury,
north London as Cooper, aged 32, fought bravely with his big left hooks to
battle against Clay"s quick footwork and fast punches.
          After the fight Cooper was sent to Guys Hospital where he had 12 stitches
for the cut that dashed his hopes of world victory.
          His manager Jim Wicks, said Clay had butted Cooper with his head and should
be disqualified.
          Clay, a committed Muslim, has recently changed his name to Mohammed
Ali.
          "I am the greatest!"
          The 1960 Olympic champion, famed for proclaiming "I am the greatest!", took
the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964.
          He was left unmarked by the fight apart from some swelling on the cheekbone
under his left eye - the result of one of Cooper"s best punches.
          After his win, he went to Cooper"s dressing room to see him and said: "I
hate to spill blood. It"s against my religion."
          His manager and "spiritual adviser" Herbert Muhammed said Clay should be
proud of his performance.
          "It was a wonderful punch," he said. "The same one that broke Liston. It"s
terrible to see a man destroyed like that. I think the referee should have
stopped the fight before."
          Vocabulary:
          crony: a long-time close friend or companion(密友,亲信)
          gash:a long, deep cut(深长的伤口)
          footwork: (体)步法
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