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- <text id=93TT1106>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: At the Boiling Point
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- WORLD
- At the Boiling Point
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>India's government puts a lid on a planned protest by Hindu
- militants
- </p>
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- <p> Overnight New Delhi became a military fortress. Even before
- they began converging on India's capital for a planned antigovernment
- rally, about 60,000 activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata
- Party were whisked into detention. The party's Hindu militants
- who reached the sealed-off city were confronted by a security
- force of 60,000. Several flash points erupted as authorities
- sprayed tear gas at crowds and hauled off an additional 5,000
- to sport stadiums. Through it all, the manicured lawns near
- the presidential palace--planned rallying point of the militants--remained pristinely empty.
- </p>
- <p> Thus did the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao
- finally show resolve in dealing with India's spreading sectarian
- violence. But the B.J.P. also scored, displaying a measure of
- discipline lost in last December's riotous destruction of Ayodhya's
- historic Muslim mosque. Convinced it can ride to power on a
- Hindu wave, the B.J.P. plans to continue its protest campaign
- to force national elections.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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