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After the funeral, Vice President George Bush, French President Francois Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and a long line of other distinguished visitors quietly filed past Chernenko's grave. Then they passed through the Kremlin gates to meet the new man in charge...
...people, Indians were stunned last week by yet another national crisis. This time the bombshell was the exposure of an espionage network that had penetrated to the highest reaches of the government. Before clamping a tight lid on details of the investigation, India's youthful new leader, Rajiv Gandhi, whose Congress (I) Party won a sweeping majority in national elections only a month ago, gravely informed Parliament that the country's security had been compromised by a spy scandal that he characterized as "the most serious ever...
...Official Secrets Act and criminal conspiracy against the government. Several of them were officials in the defense and commerce ministries, and three men held key positions in the Prime Minister's secretariat. Among them: T.N. Kher, the personal assistant to P.C. Alexander, a top aide to both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and one of the country's most respected civil servants. Alexander, who was not connected to the espionage activity, resigned after accepting "moral responsibility" for the leakage of hundreds of files from his office. At least 60 other people were under surveillance or being questioned by authorities...
...been firmly rejected by Mrs. Gandhi, and Indian intelligence officials, as one remarked, "smelled a rat." After Mrs. Gandhi's assassination by two of her own bodyguards six weeks later, intelligence agencies underwent a major shake-up. When routine surveillance aroused suspicions about some officials, intelligence officers met with Rajiv and informed him they had evidence against some employees in his own secretariat. He told them in effect to let the chips fall where they might. In raids on the homes and offices of the suspects on Jan. 18, agents turned up what one report described as "trunkloads" of copied...
Except for a brief appearance before Parliament to debate his government's new policies, Rajiv devoted all his attention to the espionage case. He ordered a thorough review of security procedures and a revamping of the intelligence services. All major economic and defense agreements made during the past three years will be re-examined for evidence of malfeasance. For the , new Prime Minister, the investigation was already proving to be a far more formidable task than he could have anticipated when he announced that he would put an end to corruption in public life. Indeed, by the time the books...