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Forty
Years
Ago:
August
21,
1978
ARAB
TERRORISTS
ATTACKED
an
Israeli
El
Al
Airline
bus
carrying
cabin
crew
outside
London's
Europe
hotel,
killing
a
stewardess
and
wounding
at
least
nine
others.
THE
CRISIS
IN
the
Janata
Party
assumed
a
new
dimension
with
Acharya
Kripalani
and
Jayaprakash
Narayan
exchanging
letters
presumably
with
reference
to
a
search
for
a
modus
vivendi.
THE
JANATA
CRISIS
can
now
be
compared
to
Parvati
in
Kalidasa's
Kumarasambhava
when
she
first
met
Shiva
—
moving
neither
forward
nor
backward.
The
only
new
dimension
to
the
situation
was
added
by
Raj
Narain
when
he
announced
that
Charan
Singh
had
no
intention
to
become
the
Janata
President.
The
formula
suggested
at
the
informal
Cabinet
meeting
to
resolve
the
crisis
was
that
Chandra
Shekhar
would
step
down
in
favour
of
Charan
Singh.
JP-Kriplani
letters:
THE
CRISIS
IN
the
Janata
Party
assumed
a
new
dimension
with
Acharya
Kripalani
and
Jayaprakash
Narayan
exchanging
letters
presumably
with
reference
to
a
search
for
a
modus
vivendi.
The
Acharya's
letter
was
brought
by
Bihar
CM
Karpuri
Thakur
from
Delhi
and
delivered
to
JP
by
Gajendra
Prasad
Himanshi,
minister
of
state
for
Irrigation.
Before
he
returned
to
Delhi,
Thakur
called
on
JP
and
collected
his
reply
to
Kriplani.
El
Al
Bus
Attack:
ARAB
TERRORISTS
ATTACKED
an
Israeli
El
Al
Airline
bus
carrying
cabin
crew
outside
London's
Europe
hotel,
killing
a
stewardess
and
wounding
at
least
nine
others.
One
of
the
terrorists
was
killed
when
a
grenade
exploded
in
his
face
as
El
Al
security
men
shot
at
the
attackers,
Scotland
Yard
said.
The
police
said
the
terrorist
was
shot
before
he
could
throw
the
grenade.
Cinema
set
ablaze
THE
IRANIAN
GOVERNMENT
says
Islamic
terrorists
set
fire
to
a
packed
cinema
theatre
in
a
city
in
the
Iranian
oil
fields,
killing
377
persons.
The
theatre
was
located
in
Abadan,
an
oil
refining
centre
48
km
from
the
Persian
Gulf.
A
government
spokesman
said
it
was
the
sixth
cinema
theatre
to
be
set
on
fire
since
August
8,
the
beginning
of
Ramzan,
a
period
of
fasting
when
Islamic
groups
urge
people
not
to
attend
films
or
eat
in
restaurants.
Forty
Years
Ago:
August
21,
1978
ARAB
TERRORISTS
ATTACKED
an
Israeli
El
Al
Airline
bus
carrying
cabin
crew
outside
London's
Europe
hotel,
killing
a
stewardess
and
wounding
at
least
nine
others.
THE
CRISIS
IN
the
Janata
Party
assumed
a
new
dimension
with
Acharya
Kripalani
and
Jayaprakash
Narayan
exchanging
letters
presumably
with
reference
to
a
search
for
a
modus
vivendi.
THE
JANATA
CRISIS
can
now
be
compared
to
Parvati
in
Kalidasa's
Kumarasambhava
when
she
first
met
Shiva
—
moving
neither
forward
nor
backward.
The
only
new
dimension
to
the
situation
was
added
by
Raj
Narain
when
he
announced
that
Charan