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Because of recent political agitation in India's Bihar state, a force of at least 1,000 security men was present last week when the Indian Minister for Railways, Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, formally opened a new 36-mile-long rail line from Samastipur to Muzaffarpur. Mishra had just finished his remarks and was stepping down from the dais when a time bomb exploded, ripping the dais to pieces and wounding Mishra as well as 24 bystanders (four of whom later died). Mishra himself died the following day during emergency surgery...
Mishra, in fact, was easily the most unpopular man in the Indian government-not only because of the corruption charges, but also because he had successfully used strong-arm measures last year in breaking a national rail strike. At week's end, a crowd of government employees in New Delhi initially refused to express formal grief at the news of Mishra's death. Only after the main speaker, Jayaprakash Narayan himself, remonstrated with the group and declared that "no sane person can tolerate" such acts of terrorism did the audience reluctantly support the traditional resolution of condolence...
...rapid transit stations at Harvard Square (Red Line) is the third busiest in the entire system. However, the number of boarders is below the capacity of the station. The operating hours and schedules of the fixed rail Red Line, are efficient enough to meet the present and future demands of Cambridge and its surrounding areas...
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam flew home from London, cutting short a European tour, to oversee the most massive rescue operation in Australia's history. Darwin is the continent's most isolated city: almost 2,000 miles from the nearest metropolis, with no rail link to the rest of Australia and only one paved road through the outback. Navy units were immediately dispatched from Sydney with emergency supplies, but it will take them a week to complete the 2,500-mile voyage. Meanwhile, air force planes, commercial airlines and private jets donated by several Australian companies were airlifting...
Died. Amy Vanderbilt, 66, doyenne of American etiquette; of injuries suffered in a fall from the window of her Manhattan brownstone. Great-granddaughter of a cousin of the rail baron Cornelius, she was born on Staten Island and began her career writing society columns in a local paper, went on to become a syndicated columnist. Her Complete Book of Etiquette (1952) sold almost 3 million copies, with such advice as where the father of the bride should sit if he and the mother of the bride are divorced. (Beside his new wife in the third pew behind the mother...