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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...
Your article on the plight of Guatemalan citizens living in Mexico [WORLD, June 18] presents statements based on semitruths. The Guatemalan government has designed a program to bring back from Mexico Guatemalans who freely and voluntarily wish to be resettled. One of the first steps was the inauguration of the village of Chacas near the Mexican border. Guatemala has been conducting negotiations on this issue of relocation with Mexico since November of 1983. In April the Mexican government unilaterally decided to resettle the refugees in northern Campeche. The Guatemalan government publicly protested to the Mexicans after the El Chupadero incident...
...third pro-Government decision grew out of plans for a 1982 demonstration in two parks near the White House. To call attention to the plight of the homeless, the Community for Creative Non-Violence proposed to put up 60 tents to house actual homeless people. The National Park Service authorized the tents, but invoked an anticamping regulation and refused to allow demonstrators to sleep in them...
...pace with inflation. IMF economists have argued that such a policy could cause Argentina's 568% inflation rate to spiral even higher. But Alfonsín hopes that the IMF board, which is controlled by the governments of the major industrial countries, will be sympathetic to the political plight of Argentina's six-month-old democratic regime...
...case, the subject seems to be of primary interest to University administrators. From the Corporation on down, the plight of Harvard's junior faculty is a hot topic. Senior fellow Hugh Calkins '45 says the Corporation's Appointments Committee, which includes President Bok, wants to see a higher percentage of tenured positions filled from within...