NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 28, 1984
Page 11
Dignitary murdered in Bombay
By United Press International
BOMBAY, India — Britain's deputy high commissioner in Bombay was slain by gunshots that shattered his car windows yesterday as he was being driven to work. A Muslim group claimed it "executed" the veteran diplomat because he had ties to the CIA.
Percy Norris, 56, was being driven to work by his chauffeur when at least one gunman opened fire from close range as the car slowed to
ine Press Trust of India said witnesses saw two assassins, described as Western in appearance.
make a turn 500 yards from his office, a British spokesman said.
In telephone calls to news agencies in London and Paris, a man claimed responsibility for Norris' murder on organization of Socialist Muslims."
The man, who said he was speaking from Bucharest, claimed in a call to Agence France Presse in Paris that a commando unit "tuesday at dawn executed the British consul who works for Scotland Yard
and who is associated with the CIA." Scotland Yard and the CIA had no immediate comment.
The British spokesman said bullets smashed two side windows of the car, striking the diplomat in the heart and temple.
"Although Norris was taken at once to the Breach Candy hospital intensive care unit, there was nothing that anyone could do, and he died shortly afterwards," the spokesman said.
It was the first attack on a British official in India in almost 20 years, Ronald Nash, a British Embassy
spokesman in New Delhi, said.
LARIS, or Teddington, England,
had been in his post for less than two
months.
Officials said security at British diplomatic facilities throughout India and the British Airways office in London was stepped up after the slaying.
British diplomatic missions in India have been the target of numerous demonstrations since June when the British Broadcasting Corporation and a controversial interview with a London separatist leader in London.
Two U.S. banks drop prime rate
NEW VORK — Chase Manhattan Bank, the nation's third largest bank, yesterday lowered its prime lending rate to 11.4 percent from 11.4 percent.
Citicorp and several other large banks Monday trimmed their prime lending rate to 11½ percent from 11¾.
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