NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 14, 1984
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Gandhi seeks early election
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi yesterday called for parliamentary elections. Dec. 24 in an apparent move to marshal sympathy for his slain mother into a mandate to succeed her as leader of the world's largest democracy
Gandhi announced the elections—legally required to be held by January— only 24 hours after winning the presidency of the ruler Congress-I Party molded by his mother and two years after scattering her ashes over the Himalayas, ending the official mourning period.
"He's striking while the iron is hot," one political analyst said. "He
has a wave of sympathy going for him following the assassination of his mother who was identified with India during her 16 years as its leader."
The 40-year-old former pilot was sworn in to succeed his mother as prime minister hours after she was assassinated Oct. 31 by two bodyguards belonging to the minority Sikh religion.
Indira Gandhi's murder sparked a wave of violence in northern India that left about 1,200 people dead, most of them Sikhs killed by mobs of Hindus seeking to avenge the assassination.
Before her death, Mrs. Gandhi had been expected to call the elections in January to satisfy India's Constitution, which demands a ballot before
he current five-year term of Pari-
ament expires Jan. 20.
The election will be India's eighth since it gained independence from Britain 37 years ago.
With nearly 380 million citizens eligible to vote in the nation of 720 million, it may take up to a week before all 1,500 tons of paper ballots are counted, officials said. But most results should be known the day after the election.
Chief Elective Commissioner Ram Krighna Triveli said election would be in held in all but two of India in 22 states. It will not take place in the northern states of Punjab and Assam, which have a limited control because of recent unrest.
By United Press International
450 Afghan rebels executed
NEW DELHI, India — A Soviet officer ordered the massacre of 450 unarmed Muslim guerrillas who had surrendered after holding a mountain fortress in central Afghanistan, a Western diplomat said yesterday.
The execution occurred in early October in Hezrajar j west of the capital of Kabul, said the quoting "a credible source."
"Four weeks ago, a rebel force held the mountain fortress at an undisclosed location in Hezratzaj against a combined Soviet and
Afghan regime force until their ammunition ran out," the diplomat said.
The report could not be independently confirmed.
"At that point they were forced to surrender. When the Soviet and regime force entered the fortress and disarmed them, the Soviet officer in charge gave the order to withdraw, where he were to be summarily executed."
In Kabul, rebels attacked the regime's Defense Ministry at the Darulamun Palace with rockets and Afghan Mohan soldiers, the diplomat said.
The diplomat said many guests fled the Soviet Embassy when
"gunfire and rocket explosions broke out" in the city on Nov. 5 during a reception marking the anniversary of the Russian revolution. No injuries or damage were reported in the attack, the source said.
"Prolonged machine-gun fire came from near or in the prime ministry just after curfew on the night of Nov. 10-11," the source said.
There were unconfirmed reports, according to rebel sources, that a four-engine Soviet transport plane with a 10-man crew was shot down south of Kabul near Bagram on Oct. 27.
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