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- THE WEEK, Page 16WORLDET CETERA
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- COURTING MORE CHAOS
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- During the week of riots following the destruction of a 16th
- century mosque at Ayodhya, Indian police arrested nearly 6,000
- Hindus and Muslims in a nationwide crackdown. Public order has
- been restored, but the country's political crisis continues to
- deepen. Within minutes of reconvening, Parliament erupted in
- chaos as legislators locked horns over Prime Minister P.V.
- Narasimha Rao's dismissal of three state governments ruled by
- the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Rao's move may backfire
- if citizens demonstrate a preference for the B.J.P. leaders they
- elected.
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- WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?
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- Once again, Khmer Rouge forces seized and held United Nations
- peacekeeping troops. Initially 21, mostly Indonesian
- paratroopers, were held for two days in a hamlet 100 miles north
- of Phnom Penh by about 70 heavily armed guerrillas, who refuse
- to cooperate with the U.N. peace plan; 46 U.N. troops
- negotiating to free them were also briefly detained before all
- were released. In a separate incident, the Khmer Rouge were
- holding nine others from the U.N. under a threat of death at
- week's end. The episodes cast doubts on both the U.N.'s
- credibility and Cambodia's plans for elections in May.
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