V.L. Pandit Dies; Envoy for India

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 2, 1990 | Copyright information

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 90, a former Indian ambassador to the United States and U.N. General Assembly president who was a sister of the first Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died Dec. 1 in Dehra Dun, a town in the Himalayan foothills where she had lived for the last 20 years.

Mrs. Pandit's political and diplomatic career spanned four decades.

She led India's first delegations to the United Nations and was president of the General Assembly in 1953 and 1954. She was the ...

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