Word: inderjit
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...SENTENCED. INDERJIT SINGH REYAT, 50, Sikh activist involved in the June 1985 mid-air bombing of an Air India flight that killed all 329 people aboard, to five years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to manslaughter; in Vancouver. Reyat admitted acquiring materials for the bomb, but denies knowing who built it and what it was to be used for. Reyat has already served a 10-year sentence in Britain for his involvement in a foiled attempt to blow up another Air India flight on the same day. The bombings were believed to be retaliation against the Indian government after it ordered...
From his gleaming white palace among the golden pagodas in Katmandu, hollow-cheeked King Mahendra issued a royal decree: the new Prime Minister of Nepal is Dr. Kunwar Inderjit Singh. To his neighbors in the two most populous nations in the world, the King's choice was of major significance. Tiny Nepal lies on a 4,000-ft.-to-9,000-ft. slope of the Himalayas between Red China and India, and is a pawn in the tense frontier rivalry between them. The Foreign Ministries in both countries last week probably had legitimate misgivings about how Singh will swing...
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