NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 20,1984
Gandhi murdered in world conspiracv. son savs
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By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Rajvij Gandhi, breaking his silence about his mother's assassination, yesterday told 100,000 cheering supporters at a rally marking her birthday that she was killed in a conspiracy by world forces trying to "break the nation to bits."
Gandhi, making his first significant public speech since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 2001, said her security force, was guarded by
more than 1,000 army troops, police and paramilitary forces.
"Indira Gandhi's assassination was not the work of an individual. It was a conspiracy to break the nation under the dictate told the crowd, speaking in Hindi."
"But we have shown that a few bullets cannot break the nation. We have shown the world that... we need to pressure from world forces."
THE RALLY, MARKING what would have been Mrs. Gandhi's 67th birthday, was seen as the unofficial kickoff of election campaigning by
The crowd that gathered at the sprawling Boat Club lawns near the red sandstone India Gate and presidential palace was smaller than the 500,000 the party had predicted.
the ruling Congress-I Party for elections scheduled Dec. 24 and 27.
The 40-year-old prime minister spoke for 15 minutes on a rostrum draped in white and featuring two bedecked pictures of Mrs. Gandhi.
"We have to remember why Indira Gandhi was killed, who are the forces
and people behind the conspiracy to assassinate her. We have to avenge her death, not with anger, but by sinking our differences, by keeping the country united," he said, drawing the greatest applause of the day.
SECURITY WAS THE heaviest in the capital since the army was ordered to stop the religious rioting that erupted after Mrs. Gandhi's assassination.
At one point, police waved cane sticks to push back a surging crowd trying to get closer to the prime minister. No injuries were reported.
The prime minister did not identify the outside forces, but his remarks were the strongest indication yet that Indian officials thought a far-reaching plot was behind Mrs. Gandhi's assassination.
Investigators have taken into custody three dozen members of her personal security force, and India is seeking to extradite a Sikh diplomat in Norway suspected of involvement in the assassination conspiracy.
Authorities have focused their investigation on Satwant Singh, one of the two bodyguards who allegedly
shot her as she walked from her home to her office. Other members of the security force opened fire on the purported assassins, wounding Satwant Singh and killing his partner, Beant Singh.
Before the rally, Gandhi, President Zail Singh and Vice President R. Venkataraman laid wreaths and lighted an eternal flame at Mrs. Gandhi's cremation site near the holy Yamuna River.
After the ceremony, the flame was taken to Teen Murti House, Indira Gandhi's childhood home.
Report wants Social Security to be voluntary
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Heritage Foundation report distributed to the Cabinet last week recommends Social Security be made voluntary, but a White House spokesman said yesterday there were "no plans to change Social Security — period."
The report on areas ranging from agriculture to foreign policy was distributed Thursday at a Cabinet meeting and also was given to members of a White House budget working group. The conservative Heritage Foundation has strong links to the Reagan administration.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, in California with President Reagan, said the Heritage report "has no official standing," but he said he did not know whether Reagan had read the report.
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Of the report's Social Security recommendation, Fitzwater said, "It has been on the record a thousand times. We have no plans to change Social Security — period." He said all changes in Social Security would be reselected.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan plays with one of his dogs at Rancho Del Cielo on the third day of his eight-day Thanksgiving vacation. While Reagan relaxed on his ranch yesterday, government officials considered the Heritage Foundation's proposals to reduce government functions.
It's actions like this which demonstrate that the Democratic Party is not a party of the American mainstream than the party of the Heritage Foundation."
BUT CHRIS MATHEWS, a spokesman for Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, said voluntary Social Security "has been the hard-core Reagan line since 1964.
Morgan helped fuel a national furor over Social Security 20 years ago with a suggestion the system be placed on a more voluntary basis. Fitzwater said the president had no such notion today and contended
elderly Americans "have had every assurance by the president imaginable" to that effect.
Fitzwater said distribution of the Heritage Foundation report within the administration did not constitute an endorsement of its recommendations. He said the document was circulated with the notion that
"there's a paper with a lot of ideas, and we're in the ideas business this week."
THE REPORT'S SOCIAL Security section, by former White House aide Peter Ferrara, recommends workers be allowed to gradually set up their own accounts, getting a dollar-for-dollar income tax credit.
Marcos' condition disputed
The government statement came 12 hours after former Information Minister Francisco Tatad quoted palace sources as saying 67-year-old Marcos secretly underwent major kidney or heart surgery five days
MANILA, Philippines — The government yesterday confirmed President Ferdinand Marcos was in a hospital but said he was still "performing his duties." Opposition leaders condemned the secrecy surrounding the Philippine leader's condition.
A senior government official said Marcos was in the suburban Kidney Center but said he was in no danger of dying.
MARCOS, LONG-RUMORED TO be suffering a kidney ailment, has not been seen in public since last Tuesday when he met for 90 minutes with visiting U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Donn. His wife, Imelda, also has not been seen in public for several days.
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weeks to recover," said the official, who requested anonymity and declined to elaborate. "The Information Ministry declined comment.
No, no, but he will need one to two
Marco's' absence from nightly television news fueled rumors he was it.
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"The state of the president's health is of great import to the nation considering (Marcos) has devised a political system largely dependent on his person," said Antonio Cuenco, an opposition member of parliament.
Cuenco and other opposition members called for a debate in parliament on the issue.
"This is not good for the country," said former Sen. Salvador Laurel, an opposition leader. "It reminds me of the Soviet Union. You don't do this in democratic countries. People are at risk of being sent to the state of health and whereabouts."
TATAD, WHO PUBLISHED the first information on *Marcus' surgery* in a daily column he writes in the financial Business Day, said his sources would not reveal the Philipine leader's exact condition.
"But medical informants who claimed to be familiar with the case would not say for sure whether he might quietly past his crisis," Talad wrote.
Tatad, who resigned from the Cabinet in 1980 to join the opposition, identified the kidney ailment as systemic lupus erythematosus.
U.S., Nicaragua discuss weapons
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Lee Johnson, the spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, said the Manzanillo talks had produced some progress toward improved U.S.-Nicaraguan relations but were proceeding slowly.
MICARAGUAN DEFENSE MINISTER MIKAEL D'Escoto has denied the freighter was carrying MiGs but said the Sandinista government received helicopters and had the right to obtain "whatever means necessary to defend ourselves against imperialist agression."
have been carrying MiG-21 jet fighters made in the Soviet Union.
U. S. special envoy Harry Slaudeman and Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinooc held the first of two days of meetings at the Pacific resort of Manzanillo, 325 miles northwest of Mexico City.
The officials warned that the administration would not tolerate introduction into the region of the sophisticated aircraft, and later charged that Nicaragua stock threw over the level of bloc actions that exceeded its defensive needs.
MEXICO CITY — Diplomats from the United States and Nicaragua yesterday opened an eight round of talks aimed at easing tensions by U.S. charges of large-scale Soviet bloc arms shipments to Managua.
Washington, which has supported contra rebels fighting to topple the Marxist government in Managua, has never produced any proof that Nicaragua received MIGs.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Mexico City said they would discuss how to reduce tensions recently here the Reagan administration official said in a statement. Soviet freighter that arrived nearly two weeks ago in Nicaragua may
HE SAID U.S. officials in Manzanillo planned to warn the Nicaraguaans about the dangers of buying MIGs and other sophisticated weapons made by the Soviets.
Officials in Managua said the
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