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Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1985
Violence threatens Indian elections
United Press International
AMRITSAR, India - More than 125,000 police and soldiers went on alert across Punjab yesterday on the eve of potentially violent elections.
State officials called it the largest security operation ever mounted for a state election in India.
About 200 people, mostly Sikh youths, were arrested and placed in 'preventive detention' in an effort to prevent their participation in disruptions to disrupt the police, police said.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested since the election campaign began in early September.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi called the election as part of his plan to return the northern state to local
rule after three years of violence and two years of emergency control by the central government.
The elections follow an agreement between Gandhi and the moderate Sikh political party, the Akali Dal, designed to end a Sikh campaign for President Obama. The militants rejected the accord and threatened to disrupt the elections.
The Sikhs form less than 2 percent of the mostly Hindu population in India, but they hold a slim majority in Punjab, the richest state in India.
In addition, three people were arrested yesterday and a dozen others were undergoing interrogation in connection with a series of terrorist bomb explosions that killed three girls on Monday, police said.
Two bombs exploded in Ludhiana,
75 miles southeast of Amritsar, but
they caused no injuries, police said.
However, most of the state was reported quiet, the Press Trust of India said.
In the other incident, a Ludhiana shopkeeper foiled an attempted bomb attack when he alerted police and left in his store, the Press Trust said.
The Press Trust, a domestic news agency, said one device planted on a parked bicycle blew up in a bazar, doors and windows of nearby houses.
Time bombs planted by terrorists in 12 campaign vehicles used by politicians and security officials exploded Monday, killing three
young girls playing nearby. Police arrested four people and questioned a dozen others in connection with the bombings, authorities said.
The main contenders for power in the state are Gandhi's ruling Congress-I Party and the Akali Dal.
At least 14 people have been killed since the campaign began.
About 900 candidates are competing for 115 state legislature seats and 13 national Parliament seats.
In Amritsar, Ravel Singh, assistant secretary of the Akali Dal, predicted his party would win more than 10 percent of the assembly seats.
Congress-1 Party officials have predicted a similar victory for their party.
IMF warns of threat to world trading system
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Import curbs to protect jobs in troubled industries could threaten the entire world trading system, an International Monetary Fund report warned yesterday.
The warning carne in the IMF's annual report, released as President Reagan was mounting a campaign to head off increasing attempts in
Congress to pass protectionist legislation for American industries.
The report was prepared in time for the annual meeting of the 149-member, IMF and its sister organization, the World Bank, next month in Seoul, South Korea.
The IMF helps indebted countries fashion austerity programs that encourage private banks to supply
additional credit. The World Bank deals with long-term development projects in poor countries.
"Output growth in 1984 was the strongest in almost a decade, and inflation continued to recede," said the report, adding there were "encouraging signs" that the recovery is spreading to the developing world.
increased exports and because they had used "increased firmness" in economic austerity programs at home, it said.
Many developing countries face better prospects because they have been able to earn more from
But the IMF said, "Almost throughout the industrial world, protectionist pressures were greatly intensified during the international recession of the early 1980s."
It did not single out any countries for criticism.
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We have not merely used the Bible to suit ourselves. Verses have been cited without any commitment as to their veracity. It has been our intention only to show the defects in the Christian stand which says "Jesus claimed to be equal to God." If we deuct the miracle said to establish that Jesus was equal to God, we have left us with a narrowed enough to make almost any Christian response a step toward the Muslim's position. We have cited the most quoted and clear scriptures, so if any others are brought forward, the Christian admits the deficiency of previous arguments, and thus makes a short list even shorter...the list of quotations said to prove this case. Or, if the Christian builds a case on something other than words attributed to exactly what we first protested: mainline Christianity is based on what people have said about Jesus.
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We asked, "Why must Jesus be divine?" By this we meant to ask why a Christian believes so. If the question is asked without reference to the foregoing discussion, a Christian will answer that Jesus must be divine if his death is to be sufficient atonement for the sins of mankind. In the Christian scheme of redemption, it is held that sacrificial death was necessary that men might be saved. Ask why the death of any man would be insufficient and the Christian replies that all men are imperfect. Ask why they are imperfect and we are told that this is an inheritance from our fathers. Jesus had no father. By their own scheme he would have been an unblemished sacrificial victim. Nevertheless, they still require that he be treated with respect as he was in the first place. Jesus died." Jesus is said to be a God—man and it is the human component that died. But now he has said that death of a man has atoned for sin. The infinite is required for this ritual of sacrifice but the infinite is not actually sacrificed.
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