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Sikh outrage at the assault on the temple echoed throughout India and around the world. Ignoring curfew laws, hundreds of Sikhs rioted in Punjab; they also caused havoc in a number of Indian cities. In New Delhi angry Sikhs demanded Bhindranwale's body for cremation and vowed to keep his legend alive. "If one Bhindranwale dies," Sikhs at a New Delhi demonstration shouted, "a thousand are born." Two militants brandishing swords at tacked the Indian consulate in Vancouver, Canada, leaving it a shambles. Security was increased around Indian missions in the U.S., Canada, Britain, West Germany, The Netherlands...
...African boycott of Montreal, the U.S. no-show in Moscow, and now, the big nyet from Chernenko and Co. Nor do prospects for the future look good. The 1988 Games were awarded to South Korea, thereby presenting Big Brother to the North with an ideal opportunity to wreak havoc upon its estranged friends to the South. And of course, Soviet-South Korean relations being what they are, the Russians could easily decide to stay home again...
Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is often depicted in the West as a volatile dictator, unloved and distrusted on the world stage but firmly in command of his people. That assessment may no longer be altogether true. While his diplomats in London were creating havoc before their expulsion from Britain late last month, reports were circulating in Libya that Gaddafi's troubles were mounting at home. According to Western residents and Libyans in Tripoli, he is less popular today with his 3.2 million countrymen than at any time since he seized power in 1969 from the aging...
...much as far as most Harvard spring sports teams are concerned. For the winter shows that wreaked havoc with their preseasons last week became the spring show that's now wreaking havoc with their regular seasons...
Ironically, the government's anti-Sendero campaign, which officials claim has killed 1,441 guerrillas since 1980, appears to have forced prominent members of the group into Lima. There the terrorists have found they can cause major havoc and tie up security forces with minimal effort. Their contribution to last Thursday's strike was a series of bombings in at least ten locations around the capital, including banks, a police station, an army barracks and a site near the U.S. embassy. But Sendero's splashiest success so far was a well-coordinated New Year...