Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday october 2i, i97c villagers killed in Rural protest of sterilization the los Angeles times Muzaffar Nagar India eyewitnesses claimed wednesday that police opened fire on thousands of unarmed villagers last week As they demonstrated against a government sterilization program. Moslem leaders in Muzal far Nagar said the oct. Is incident claimed 50 to 150 lives. The District magistrate who is in charge of the As Sert edly voluntary sterilization program aimed at halt ing India s drastically spiral ing population growth said there was a minor scuffle but denied there were any deaths. India prime minister Indira Gandhi told parliament wednesday in new Delhi 100 Miles Southwest of Muzaffar Nagar for the first time that some deaths have taken place due to Al though she did not specifically mention this Village located in utter Pravesh state. The incident Here is the la test and most dramatic re port of abuses in the family planning program. Stories abound of people being taken off buses and transported to Vasectomy Camps. There also Are increasing reports of violent protests. But it was impossible to confirm any figure for the alleged deaths or their number if True during several interviews Here wednesday. Political opponents of mrs. Gandhi and her ruling Congress party wednesday saw Indian president Fak Huddin Ali Ahmed and of Eugene Mccarthy tells reporters wednesday lie will Challenge the constitutionality of the United states Federal election Law. Or. Mccarthy a former senator from Minnesota is running for president As an Independent in More than in states. Urged the government to con duct a judicial inquiry into the Muzaffar Nagar incident. One of the 10 members of parliament in the group was Ghafoor Ali Khan who ear Lier in the week sent or. Ahmed a Telegram about his personal inspection of the area and reported at least 50 killed. In her parliamentary address mrs. Gandhi said the numbers of deaths Given by some honorable members Are greatly exam a religious Leader Here told reporters the mean ing the prime minister did not know about abuses in family planning. The moslem claim that government officials refuse to listen when religious Lead ers explain that the islamic Faith prohibits family plan Ning. If there is another Confron tation the leaders say the people almost certainly will submit to compulsory sterilization for fear there will be More shootings. The government has pm b a r k e d on an aggressive family planning program which officials say is entirely voluntary police mrs. Gandhi reiterated in parliament wednesday that " we do not approve of compulsion but we do believe that programs of sterilization and the adoption of other known effective measures for the control of population Are important and most urgent. It is our View and those of Many non government people who have toured around the country that there is now an awareness and acceptance of these pro Grams. But and it is a very big but certain parties and groups and individuals have been raising a Hue and cry creating misunderstanding and an atmosphere of fear. As we know fear leads to irrational action. Therefore when a situation of Confron tation is deliberately created there Are tragic Conse the moslem leaders of this v i 11 e a g e who asked that their names not be used blamed last week s clash on overzealous state govern ment officials. A Man named Bijendra who said i was Given Only one is the District magistrate the chief Law in Force mint officer in the area. Or. Bijendra said wednes Day that there have been minor problems with family planning programs. But he denied that anyone died or was injured Here on oct. 18. One witness cited in probe veto the los Angeles times Washington Justice department officials said wednesday they interviewed Only one potential witness be fore rejecting a Pica from two congressional democrats last week to investigate president Ford s role in an Early watergate probe. The potential witness Richard k. Cook a former White House lobbyist reportedly denied accusations that he had approached president Ford about blocking a 1972 congressional inquiry into watergate finances. But or. Cook was not placed under oath and neither his accuser former presidential counsel John w. Dean Iii nor or. Cook s then Superior William e. Timmons was interviewed by the officials said. In rejecting an inquiry into president Ford s conduct. At Torney general Edward h. Levi said last week that the department had carefully studied the matter. He noted that president Ford had denied any White House approaches when questioned about it during his 1.973 vice presidential confirmation hearings. Or. Levi said the depart ment had found no credible evidence new or old. Making appropriate the initiation of a further president Ford supported or. Levi s decision wednes Day when asked about it Dur ing a Campaign Stop in at lactic City new Jersey. Prisoner snatches gun e o is subdued and Dies the Washington Post Washington a 29 year old prisoner snatched a pistol from a . Marshal in a crowded Superior court courtroom wednesday fired one. Shot in the direction of judge Alfred Burka and was subdued by marshals before subsequently dying in the courthouse. The prisoner Curtis e. Boston jr., died within min utes after being forced to the floor and suffering a com pression of the Chest that caused a laceration of the heart . Medical examiner or. James l. Luke said after an autopsy wednesday night. Asked what could have Raused the compression or. Luke said somebody jump ing on him or something like that. He had to have been on the ground for such pres sure to have been exerted on his Chest. 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