Thursday, September 16, 1999
Scandal in Paris -- MEA begins to get nervous
Aware that the incident over the alleged assault of an Indian maid in Paris could snowball into a major diplomatic scandal, the MEA is planning to send a diplomat to the French capital to conduct an independent inquiry.
Naxals strike in AP again, kill TDP MLA
Stepping up pre-poll violence, outlawed People's War Group extremists gunned down sitting MLA and TDP candidate from this segment, P Purushottam Rao, yesterday. Three gunmen of the MLA also fell to the bullets of the Naxalites.
Finally, US talks of sanctions on China -- Pak missiles
After years of hedging and obfuscation, the Clinton administration has begun mulling over imposing sanctions on China for its clandestine transfer of M-11 missiles to Pakistan.
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