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Ministeis stay | The Indian Health Minis|ter (Mr Raj Narain) has said : neither he nor the Home i Minister (Mr Charan Singh) are contemplating resignai tion from the Government after disciplinary censure by the ruling Janata Party. He i was speaking after two j rounds of talks with Mr Singh, who had threatened ito resign over a top-level i party decision to censure Mr Narain for criticising the party leadership. The censure decision came as a further set-back to the factionridden party which is losing i its immense popularity ! which swept, it to power 15 months ago. — New Delhi. Author dies ’: Edward Hunter, a noted t authority on psychological t warfare who popularised the j term “brain-washed," has J died. He was 75. Author of several books on brain-wash-ing, Mr Hunter is credited ' with having introduced the term into the English language. An aide said Mr . Hunter first. heard the term ' while in China where the o phrase, “Ksi Nao,” literally “ means “wash brain.” Mr t Hunter, who started his . career as a journalist. 5 worked during the war for 'the American Office of J Strategic Services and aftert wards for the Central Inj telligence Agency. — Wash- ; ington. > Sadat shake-up ] President Anwar Sadat, of j I Egypt, has ordered a shake- ; up in the Egyptian military j high command, including re- . placements of two front-line . heroes of the 1973 war with . Israel, the Middle East News Agency has reported. Quot- [ ing a republican decree, the > agency said that Major-Ge- ' neral Youssef Afifi had re- > placed Major-General Ahmed t Badawi as commander of the i 3rd Armv and Major-General Abd Rab Naby Hafez had re-’ ! placed Major-General Fuad J Aziz Ghali as commander of ithe 2nd Army. Both armies !are positioned in the Suez | Canal Zone front-lines. — ! Cairo. Nuclear protest Anti-nuclear protesters, 'who were manoeuvered by : New Hampshire officials 'into abandoning their main , tactic of civil disobedience I earlier this month and are deeply divided as a result, have convened in Seabrook. New Hampshire, for three days of legally sanctioned demonstrations at the site of last year’s mass arrests Despite the schism, spokes men for the Clamshell Al liance, the protesters’ loose 'ly knit organisation, said I they hoped that three days jof speeches, ceremonies and ; rallies protesting the construction of a $2.3 billion jU.S. nuclear power plant m ! Seabrook would be useful in I broadening their movement Ito include people unwilling ! to risk arrest or .association j with illegal actions. — Seabrook.
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