VOL.100, NO.66 (USPS 650-640)
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Gandhi quits post as prime minister
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi resigned yesterday, and for only the second time since independence in 1947 his Congress Party did not claim the right to form the next government.
Opposition parties began trying to assemble a coalition.
Gandhi submitted his resignation to President Ramaswamy Venkataraman and said he was ready for the role of opposition leader.
"The people have given their verdict," he said in a televised speech last night.
"A new government will be formed. We extend to them our good wishes and offer them our constructive cooperation," said the 45-year-old mayor who won his own Parliament seat overwhelmingly for a third time.
Congress won more Parliament
seats in last week's elections than any other party but was far short of a majority.
The Congress Party has been out of office only once since independence from Britain.
National Front leaders predicted yesterday that they would choose the next prime minister, but differences arose among the five parties.
A meeting was delayed until tomorrow so legislators from the alliance could try to persuade its main leader, Wiswanath Pratap Singh, to take the job. Singh has repeatedly said he does not want it.
"There will be trouble in the party if V.P. Singh is not elected prime minister," said Jaipal Reddy of Janata Dal, or People's Party, largest of the five parties in the National Front.
Singh is a former Gandhi minister and ally who has become his most prominent political foe.
Left-handers encounter chair problems at KU
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Birch said, "It's aggravating cause you have to turn and re-posi-
n yourself and you end up writing my."
Raskin said that sometimes he would be in a room with free-standing chairs that would have only one chair. He said the rooms should be more.
"There should be at least one lefty in every classroom and maybe you could designate some in a row in lecture hall, like maybe four." he
"We've considered finding chairs at more ambestubred, but we won't found a particular style of chair that appears to be something we would want to purchase for that提案, as far as quality," he said. "There have been some conversations about left-handed chairs, but I don't know if we have a particular ear count of the average number of left-handed people per room or not."
He said that he didn't recall either the problem of left seating lecture halls had ever been ought to his attention but that his face had considered buying free-standing, left-handed desks.
Jim Modig, campus director of cities planning, said that the fixed in lecture halls was a part of a design package of a building
could waste management
IAO said in the report to the Senate government Affairs Committee. Comptroller General Charles Bower said that the government needed to make a major investment state-of-the-art accounting and financial management systems but at he did not know how much thatould cost.
He recommended the appointment [a government-wide "chief financial officer"] to control government pending. Also, deputies at each major agency would be required to a detailed financial reports.
Bowsher said the multibillion dollar scandals involving the savings and loan industry, the Department of housing and Urban Development and the Energy Department's doubled plants were likely to be followed by billions more in fraud, taste and abuse for a common eason — lousy management.
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The Missouri Attorney General topped the family from removing it tabe by appealing to the state court and demanding the first ruling was overturned. 4-3.
The Missouri Supreme Court decision stated that the state had an unqualified interest in life. The court did not consider testimony from family and friends as in the first saring.
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