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...secretary of the Kuwaiti embassy was shot and killed in his home in New Delhi. Then, in October 1983, Jordan's Ambassador survived a shooting outside his residence in the capital. Last November, Percy Norris, the British deputy high commissioner, was murdered while on his way to work in Bombay. No suspects have been charged in any of the attacks...
...figure in the network was said to be Coomar Narain, a businessman representing the Bombay-based Maneklal Group of Industries, which is involved in government military contracts. Narain entertained lavishly around New Delhi, cultivating contacts with government officials. He apparently persuaded some of them to photocopy secret files in return for nominal payments. Some staffers, who admitted using the photocopy machine in the Prime Minister's office, told police they received no more than $300 for a transaction and usually only $40. Sometimes payment was just a few bottles of Scotch. Said a dismayed senior official: "It seems the nation...
...Bombay, some time in the 1920s. Military band music. Massed cavalry. Mobs of the curious, somehow menacing in their vastness. The Viceroy and his lady are returning from England to India. As they pass through a great ceremonial arch, it fills the screen, dwarfing them and casting them, as symbols of an empire's transitory pomp, into the subcontinent's tuneless perspective...
Ramesh Chettri Bombay...
Meanwhile, Union Carbide representatives were working to heal the damage done to the company's good name by the disaster. The head office of its Indian subsidiary in Bombay announced that it was rushing medical supplies, doctors and chemical experts to help the survivors. The home office in Danbury promised to set up an orphanage for the more than 500 children left parentless by the disaster. In addition, the company, which had annual profits of $79 million last year on sales of $9 billion, offered $1 million to a relief fund. But state officials were by no means satisfied...