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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1979
Elections may be held in India
to stop serious political crisis
United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Political
observers say new elections offer
the only way out of India’s worst
political crisis since independence,
elections former Prime Minister In
dira Gandhi would be favored to
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Prime Minister Charan Singh re
signed Monday after Mrs. Ghandi
withdrew her support only an hour
before a crucial vote of confidence in
Parliament. Singh acknowledged he
could not win a minimum 270-vote
majority without the 73 votes con-
troled by Mrs. Gandhi.
Singh formed his government
only 23 days earlier, after securing
Mrs. Gandhi’s support. At the time,
observers said her support was a tac
tic to deny former Prime Minister
Morarji Desai, her most bitter polit
ical opponent, the opportunity to
form a new government.
President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
faced an unprecedented situation in
India’s history after Singh’s resigna
tion.
Singh urged Reddy to seek a
“fresh mandate’’ from India’s 600
million people by calling national
elections. Indians are not scheduled
to go to the polls until 1982.
However, most Indian politicans
fear early elections because opinion
polls show mounting voter indigna
tion over the nation’s chronic eco
nomic problems, deteriorating law
and order and increased squabbling
among religious and ethnic groups.
But Mrs. Gandhi is believed
eager for new elections because the
polls show her popularity steadily
rising.
Indian constitutional experts
were divided over whether Reddy
was legally required to accept
Singh’s recommendation for early
elections because Singh never was
able to muster a vote of confidence
in Parliament.
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Within an hour of Singh’s resigna
tion, opposition Janata Party leader
Jagjivan Ram met Reddy to ask
permission to form a new govern
ment, India’s third in a month.
Analsysts say Ram, a veteran and
astute politician and a leader of In
dia’s “untouchables,” has only an
outside chance of forming a gov
ernment without Mrs. Gandhi’s
support.
Ram is believed reluctant to ac
cept Mrs. Gandhi’s support because
that would give her the same life-
or-death power she enjoyed over
Singh. Her strategy, observers say,
is to destabilize any government
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possible ways of resolving the peb
cal crisis but has given no indkaa ^rities r
of his own thinking, anofficialofti un down
presidential secretariat said.
He met with Mrs. Gandhifar
minutes but no details of their me
ing were disclosed.
Worst in country’s history
Thailand train crash kills 63
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United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand — A
speeding freight train smashed into
a commuter train packed with
schoolchildren and workers near
Bangkok Tuesday, killing at least 65
people, rail officials said.
More than 250 people were in
jured, the officials said.
Railway officials said 65 bodies
have been found so far in the
twisted wreckage. They said the
death toll was almost certain to rise
in what was already the worst train
crash in Thai history.
Rescue workers using a giant
crane searched for bodies among the
smashed and derailed cars. Many of
the injured were reported in critical
condition in five Bangkok hospital.
The station master at Taling Chan
junction six miles south of Bangkok
said six more corpses were found at
dusk at the crash scene, adding to
the 59 dead reported earlier.
More .than 300 rescue workers
rushed to the scene and tried to pry
screaming victims from the tangled
wreckage.
Rescuers said bodies were be
lieved buried under the overturned
cars and officials predicted the final
death toll could go as high as 100.
Local newspapers put the unofficial
death toll at 120.
Railway police said the crash oc
curred at 6:30 a.m. when a south
bound freight train failed to halt on a
siding. It accelerated into the rail
junction just as a commuter train
packed with more than 1,500 school
children, workers and civil servants
was passing.
Four cars from the commuter
train were smashed and derailed in
the collision. Dozens of people were
trapped in the twisted wreckage.
One preliminary police report
said an incorrect go-ahead si|
was given to both trains, setM. mou
them speeding into the intersect* f
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TECATE, Mexico — Tecate’s
first annual “running of the bulls”
has been declared a great success
and will be repeated next year, de
spite the death of one American
tourist and injuries to more than a
dozen other persons.
Dell Schriever, 56, died hours
after he suffered massive head in
juries Sunday in the border city’s
first “Pamplonada,” copied from the
famed running of the bulls held each
year in Pamplona, Spain, made fa
mous in Ernest Hemingway’s novel,
“The Sun Also Rises.”
“The man’s death is unfortunate,”
said a spokesman at the Baja
California Tourism office in Tijuana,
sponsor of the event, “but a lot of
people received much enjoyment
from the day.”
The event, sponsored by the state
to boost tourist traffic to the town of
40,000 about 25 miles east of
Tijuana, drew more than 12,000
spectators.
More than 400 runners, mostly
American tourists, were chased for
13 blocks along Calle Libertadb
young bulls and cows of the fight
breed.
Schriever, of Campo, Calif
plumber at the San Onofre nucla
power station, “was brushed bya
of the bulls and he fell andtheotir
bulls ran right over him,” saidCai
Clevenger, a friend.
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in the head. Knocked unconscie
he was treated and released froi
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