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...labor minister, Ahmad Mohamed Khalif, was killed along with two pilots when their aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff. Three other ministers were injured. Caracas One person was killed and at least 12 wounded after a suspected bomb exploded near a pro-government rally in the Venezuelan capital. Patna A deadly monthlong cold spell led the Indian state of Bihar to declare a disaster. Some of the lowest temperatures in three decades have killed more than 1,800 people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Kabul After a 10-year ban Afghan women regained the right to drive. Thirty female officials passed...
DIED. Jaya Prakash Narayan, 76, Indian independence fighter who for 50 years wielded great political and moral influence in his country, though he never held public office; of heart disease; in Patna, India. Born in a small village, Narayan studied in the U.S. for seven years, supporting himself as a fruit picker while, he later said, drinking "deep at the fountain of Marxism." On returning to India in 1929, he joined Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the struggle to liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir...
...Delhi, newspapers wrote of the "ill winds" battering the Prime Minister. To the east, in the city of Patna, an angry crowd interrupted one of her speeches, chanting, "Indira Gandhi, go back!" At the southern tip of the subcontinent, near the coastal city of Trivandrum, the signs posted on palm trees cried out: END DICTATORSHIP, DETHRONE THE QUEEN...
...government an excuse for imposing the emergency in June 1975. Narayan spent five months in jail without trial but was released in November 1975, when he appeared to be near death from kidney disease. For months he has been obliged to go either to Bombay or his home in Patna every two or three days for dialysis treatment. Last week, exhausted, he entered a hospital for further treatment, announcing that he would be unable to take an active part in the rest of the campaign. What effect his illness will have on the election outcome is not yet clear...
...there can be no greater insult than to say that I could be influenced by reactionaries or by anyone else." Mrs. Gandhi's "exposure" of the Communists evoked a chorus of support from other Congress members, who accused the Communists of "betrayal of the people." In Patna, the capital of Bihar, Youth Congress members paraded the streets carrying placards: COMMUNIST PARTY MURDABAD, SANJAY GANDHI ZINDABAD (Death to the Communist Party, long live Sanjay Gandhi...