Dancing with the wolves
The safety of the hostages and the long-term, overall interests of the country. The government had promised the nation to keep both these criteria in mind while negotiating with the desperate men who had hijacked flight IC-814 on December 24.



Thank you, Mr President
Yeltsin atop a Soviet tank, singularly taking on the second coming of Stalin. That day Yeltsin was true to what he had written in his memoirs Against the Grain: ``My own problems worried me least of all, what horrified me was that the country was falling apart.''



Bofors, with bated breadth
It shot the messenger. In Parliament, then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi declared that neither he nor anyone of his family had taken any money in the deal. The world wondered why he was denying what he had not been accused of.



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