Word: singhs
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...million to compensate victims of the 1984 toxic-gas leak that killed more than 3,400 people in Bhopal, India, the company hoped it had put the world's worst industrial accident behind it. But after less than two months in office, the government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh last week disavowed the settlement. New Delhi said it would demand the $3 billion in damages that India originally sought and would seek to reinstate criminal charges against Union Carbide executives...
India also claims, with more substantiation, that Pakistan has interfered by encouraging the Kashmiri insurgents. The two-month-old government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh was infuriated last week when Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto abandoned her reticence on the issue and, in response to public pressure, voiced support for the militant Kashmiris. U.N. observers have reported a sharp increase in shooting incidents in recent months along the heavily fortified cease-fire line that separates the Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir. Pakistani soldiers attribute the sniping to jittery Indians; the Indians in turn blame the Pakistanis...
...That issue has always smoldered, but local politicians say it was the widespread vote rigging for candidates favored by Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party (I) in the 1987 elections that created a generation of committed young radicals ready to die for the secessionist cause. With the encouragement of V.P. Singh, the new Prime Minister, the state government recently attempted a display of good faith by ^ releasing 47 suspected militants and by promising talks with the rebels. But for many Kashmiris, the time for demonstrations of good faith is long past...