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Internal terrorism also made headlines around the world last week. In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a car bomb exploded, killing 75 people and injuring 100. In Katmandu, capital of the remote Himalayan nation of Nepal, five bombs exploded at the royal palace and government buildings, killing seven people and wounding 240. The explosions came a day after King Birendra declared that he would thwart any "attempt to undermine peace and order." In London on Sunday, police set up cordons after a bomb was discovered in a hotel across the street from Buckingham Palace...
...gently scattered his slain mother's ashes into the thin Himalayan air from the open hatch of an Indian air force transport plane. Then Rajiv Gandhi, 40, returned to New Delhi last week and boldly took Indira Gandhi's place in the oak-paneled Prime Minister's office. His first official act was to assure his fellow citizens, via nationwide radio and television, that he would honor his mother's democratic, nonaligned policies. Rajiv then confidently called parliamentary elections for Dec. 24. One opposition candidate: Maneka Gandhi, 28, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay...
...most important bits of business that Congress left unfinished last week was lifting the federal debt ceiling, which already stands at a Himalayan height of $1.57 trillion. Without a higher debt limit, the U.S. Treasury could lose its license to borrow and have a serious cash-flow problem beginning as early as this week. That prospect is unthinkable for a free-spending Government that even by optimistic Administration projections will chalk up a deficit of $166.9 billion in fiscal 1985, which began...
Today, he is King of Nepal, and next week he will return to his alma mater for the first time since assuming the Himalayan nation's throne...
INDIA. From the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan foothills, villagers are making offerings of rice and flowers to the rain god Varuna, and schoolchildren begin and end their days by praying for rainfall. But the heavens have rarely responded. In the space of six weeks, 100 of the 8,000 inhabitants of the town of Solankiya died of malnutrition and other drought-related diseases. Even when rain does fall, it comes in the wrong place at the wrong time. A sudden torrential downpour in the western state of Gujarat last week caused raging floods that claimed more than 800 lives...