Word: goldens
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When the Sikhs started their agitation, it was mainly political, with no religious overtones. Sant Bhindranwale provoked no violence [WORLD, June 18]. Indira Gandhi and the Hindu majority in India are to blame for the slaughter that the army committed in the Golden Temple. Sikhs worldwide have never been more united. Even "moderate" Sikhs now demand a separate state, because they know they cannot get justice from the Hindu majority...
Your article on the attack at the Golden Temple painted a gruesome picture of the plight of Sikhs and other minorities in India. With its poverty-stricken masses, India will disintegrate within the next ten to 15 years. There is no central figure after Indira Gandhi to keep that country together. The uprising of the Sikhs is just the beginning of the end of "united" India...
...Gandhi's problems with India's 15 million Sikhs have clearly been worsened by the attack on the Golden Temple. The fighting caused a coalescence of Sikh moderates and extremists, vastly complicating the task of future negotiations. It also caused fissures within the Indian army, in which the tall and warlike Sikhs have always played a disproportionately large role. According to an official spokesman last week, the interrogation of Sikh prisoners indicated that 17 retired Indian army officers above the rank of colonel had been involved in extremist activities. Of these, two officers had collected large sums...
...aftermath of the storming of the Golden Temple, Mrs. Gandhi described her decision as a "painful" one. But then, as she has done during previous crises, she tried to shift the blame to external sources, charging that Pakistan and perhaps the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had played a part in inspiring the Sikh separatist movement. Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq angrily denied those charges. "There is no truth to the allegations," Zia told TIME. "To the contrary, Pakistan has gone out of its way to normalize its relations with India." He added that the Indians were only...
...jump and was out. The 800 meters had two unexpected casualties: Don Paige and James Robinson. There is a quadrennial argument against do-or-die trials in favor of committee selections. But it might be recalled that when two eminent U.S. hurdlers faltered in the 1976 trials, a particularly golden moment of the Games was provided by one of the three outsiders, Edwin Moses...