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Sant Harchand Singh Longowal arrived at the Kamowal temple in the Punjabi village of Sherpur in high spirits. The soft-spoken president of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party, had just come from Chandigarh, where he had persuaded two leading Sikhs to withdraw their opposition to an agreement that he and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had signed on July 24, ending three years of Sikh confrontation with the government in New Delhi. Earlier in the day, Longowal had announced that the party would contest all seats in the Sept. 22 elections for the state assembly and 13 seats...
...peace has fallen to the bullets of assassins," he said. The next day Longowal was cremated in his native village with full state honors. The funeral procession included mourners from every faith and high government officials. Conspicuously absent were members of the radical faction of the Akali Dal. The extremists had denounced Longowal as a "traitor" for signing the accord, which will give more economic and political power to Sikhs in the state. But many extremists say they will settle for nothing less than an independent Sikh nation...
...Sikh restiveness in Punjab. We now have the Akali Dal (the main Sikh political party) taking a reasonably positive stand. It has condemned terrorism, and I think this is good. We have taken a lot of steps to help Sikh moderates come forward. By and large, I think there is a realization among Sikhs that we want to solve their problems and end the turmoil in Punjab...
...besieged by many problems, by her daughter leaving home to get married, by her husband involved with another woman, and who on at least three occasions took actions with her own hand which caused her to be in the state she is in today." His first expert, Dr. Leo Dal Cortivo, chief toxicologist in the Suffolk County, N.Y., medical examiner's office, said the insulin on the needle that the state contends Von Bulow used to inject his wife was not left over from an injection, since a needle is always wiped clean by the skin upon removal. The doctor...
...ghost of Bhindranwale cannot be exorcised." To speed what they hope will be a massive Hindu migration out of Punjab, Sikh terrorists have marked local Hindu leaders for assassination. In recent weeks, three have been gunned down. Among them: Balbir Singh, the state president of the opposition Lok Dal, who was killed the day before the bombings began...