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WHEN INDIAN CITIES began to burn a couple of weeks ago, a bloodbath appeared inevitable. National reaction to Indira Gandhi's murder seemed to ignite a textbook Third World crisis, complete with factional strife, religious fanaticism, and widespread, crushing poverty...
...role of the army in India's volatile democracy. This minority (see accompanying story) forms a disproportionately large block of military leadership; with only two percent of India's population, Sikhs fill almost 15 percent of the military's officer billets. A Sikh general led the attack (which Indira Gandhi ordered) on the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, and now rumors abound that this catalyzed a high-level conspiracy in the army to assassinate Gandhi with the help of two of her Sikh bodyguards. Finally, the bulk of the unrest has occurred in Punjab, the Sikh homeland...
...Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, a plethora of media coverage has catanulted Indian political and religious issues into the limelight of the international public. Most notably, the current rampant violence between Sikhs and Hindus throughout the country, but particularly in the Sikh-majority state of Punjab, has focused discussion on Gandhi's controversial decision to send the army into the Golden Temple in Amritsar last June to flush out the Sikh extremists there. But such debate has--at least in this country--typically lacked a deeper understanding of India's religious, political and historical traditions and has, as a result, misjudged...
...polite language of diploma cy only partly disguised Washington's fury over the Soviet press's accusations that the Central Intelligence Agency was behind Mrs. Gandhi's assassination. The day after the Indian leader's death, the So viet news agency TASS reported that Sikh "extremists and spies" had admitted being trained by the CIA. Pravda, the Communist Party daily, also contended that the CIA had stirred up the separatist movement in India. An angry Shultz spent the first half of the meeting with Tikhonov complaining about the news accounts, adding that the U.S. would hold...
...mine," Tikhonov replied. "But I presume we will see more of you." It is perhaps as well that the pair did not agree to get together too soon. Three days later, in his first major speech since his Washington visit, Gromyko pointedly referred to Mrs. Gandhi's murder as "a heinous crime" and blasted "the criminal policy of state terrorism pursued...