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Nation/World
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1985
Gandhi hits campaign trail
United Press International
JANDIALA, India — Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, speaking from a bullet-proof podium and ringed by submachine gun-toting commandees, yesterday appealed to rural Sikh voters to reject terrorism in Punjab.
Gandhi, making his first campaign swing through the troubled northern state, spoke at three rallies in support of ruling Congress (1) party politicians facing a tough fight from the moderate Skik Akali Dal party.
Extremists demanding a separate Sikh state in Punjab had threatened to assassinate Gandhi. Security at each rally was extremely tight.
The elections, which will bring back local government after two
years of emergency rule by the central government, are scheduled for Sept. 25. At stake are 115 seats in the state assembly and 13 seats in the national Parliament.
At the village of Jandiala, about 12 miles from the Golden Temple of Amritsar, the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion, Gandhi renewed accusations that Pakistan had sent terrorists into Punjab.
"A conspiracy was hatched across the border to prop up terrorism," Gandhi charged.
"They sent persons with growing beards and long hair to weaken India," Gandhi said, indicating that the Pakistani infiltrators were meant to look like Sikhs, whose religion forbids them to cut their hair or beards. Pakistan has consistently
denied any association with Sikh extremists.
Suspected Sikh terrorists have killed six people so far this month in an apparent effort to disrupt the election campaign. More than 100 people have died in Sikh-related violence this year.
At the election rallies, commanders in black berets carried submachine guns as they stood guard from rooftops and specially-erected towers near the bullet-proof podiums where Gandhi spoke.
Markedly absent from Gandhi's campaign in Punjab were reminders of his mother, the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated last Oct. 31 by Sikh gunmen.
BANGKOK, Thailand — Police questioned two senators yesterday about their role in last week's unsuccessful coup attempt and the government lifted a state of emergency imposed to restore normalcy to the capital.
United Press International
The senators, Sawat Lookdot and Amad Kantat Thong, were taken into police custody but no formal charges were immediately made.
The two were arrested yesterday after Parliament was closed for the year in a move that blocked some legislators from questioning Prime Minister Prem Tinsulonanda on what top military leaders — who have not been named — were involved in the coup attempt.
Thais sift senators' coup role
Some legislators had expressed a desire to question Prem about widespread speculation that Prem's government inquiry into the coup attempt would not name top military officers.
officially as supporters of the Sept. 9 coup attempt in which ex-military and political leaders tried to take over the government.
The two senators, both labor activists, were named
In fierce fighting between rebel tank commanders and loyalist troops at military headquarters in Bangkok, five people were killed, including an NBC News correspondent and his soundman, and 59 were wounded.
During the short-lived coup bid, Sawat reportedly stood by rebel tanks and urged onlookers to join in trying to topple the government.
Other parliamentarians have been alleged to be coup ringleaders, including Kriangsak Chomanan, a former prime minister and head of the National Democratic Party, one of the factions in Thailand's coalition government.
Deputy Prime Minister Prachabu Suntrangkoon told reporters yesterday that if it was proven that Kriangsak's party was one of the coup organizers, a Cabinet reshuffle was possible.
Beekeeper and firemen take throne from queen
United Press International
DU QUOIN, III. — At the R.A.
Wheatley School there were a lot of
Do Bees and Don't Bees — but
mostly Don't Bees.
The attic of the Southern Illinois school had beaten infested during summer vacation with about 200,000 bees engaged in making honey, said principal Linda Davis.
She said the bees in the attic had begun to seep into classrooms through the holes in ceiling and hallways, mistaking the artificial light for sunshine. An average of two students a day had been stung by the bees since school resumed Sept. 2 she said.
Over the weekend, firemen and beekeeper Corky Longshore, operator of the Lazy Acres Honey Farm, grit rid of the bees and their queen by sucking them up with vacuum cleaners.
"It's back to business today,' Davis said.
She said a contract will be let to patch holes in the eaves to prevent bees from setting up shop again at the school.
Tougher fraud laws proposed
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department yesterday proposed eight new laws to crack down on fraud, including some that would give Pentagon auditors better access to defense contractor documents.
Attorney General Edwin Meese, appearing at a news conference to announce the proposals, said the laws were the most important steps Congress could take to reform the procurement process and reinforce the government's efforts to prevent waste, fraud and abuse in federal programs.
Act of 1885, is designed to help detect and punish fraud in the Defense Department, Meee said. It insures that Pentagon auditors can subpoena the books and records of a contractor, the Justice Department said.
One of the proposed bills, the Anti-Fraud Criminal Enforcement
The proposed legislation also makes it an offense to obstruct a federal audit of contractors who receive fees of $100,000 or more from the government.
Meese said one provision of the bill would prevent defense contractors from seeking reimbursement from the government for their legal fees if they are convicted of fraud. It also allows the convicted contractor, as part of the sentence, to pay the cost of
the government investigation and prosecution of the case.
But Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a critic of wasteful Pentagon spending and contractor abuses, said the law should reward citizens for reporting waste, fraud or abuse, just as the law did in 1863 when the first anti-fraud bill was passed to insure the government was not victimized by contractors during the Civil War.
Sen. William Roth, R-Del., will sponsor those bills within the jurisdiction of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. In the House, Reps. Hamilton Fish, R-N.Y., and Thomas Kindness, R-Ohio, will sponsor the legislation, Meese said.
131 of old guard resign
China purges senior officials
The Associated Press
PEKING — Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping swept 131 senior Communist Party officials from power yesterday to make way for younger men and ensure the success of his economic and political reforms.
He also ended the life-tension system that prompted power struggles between stubborn, elderly leaders, which have plagued China since the communists took power in 1949.
Deng himself was a victim when former Chairman Mao Tse-tung dismissed him as a "capitalist roader" during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.
Official announcements said all 131 officials submitted voluntary resignations, including 64 full and alternate members of the powerful 344-delegate Central Committee. Among those were 10 of the 24 Polihutbo members.
fourth full session of the 12th Central Committee in Peking Deng, and his protges, party chief Hu Yaobang and Premier Zhao Ziyang, had said earlier that drastic personnel changes would be made at a series of party meetings this month.
o o u r n e s m e m b e r s
The resignations came at the
Deng, at 81 is the nation's paramount leader, head of the Central Advisory Commission and Central Military Commission.
Six Politurbio seats were vacated by military men.
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