Opinion January 15, Forty Years Ago: Deaths in Jammu and Kashmir
After a grim, daylong search, authorities in the southern port city of Busan put the death toll at 37 and said 75 people were injured in a fire that raged through a tourist hotel
Military helicopters that joined firefighters were credited with saving nearly a score of people, lifting them from the root of the 10-storey hotel or plucking them from open windows. 
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Three persons were killed and over 500 injured, 28 of them seriously, when police resorted to firing, repeated lathi-charges and tear-gas shelling in 12 townships of Kashmir Valley. The violence was offshore of a directive by the Pradesh Congress (I) to its district units to hold tehsil-level protests and demonstrations and present memoranda to tehsil heads to draw their attention against what they described as the “state government’s failure to solve the problems of the people and its encouragement to anti-national forces in Kashmir”.
Opposition stir
The Opposition conclave decided to launch a nationwide mass movement beginning on February 13 to force the Centre to concede its economic demands. This will be followed by a national convention towards the end of March to build up and strengthen public opinion in this regard. Three resolutions were adopted on the second day of the conclave and an action programme for the future chalked out.
Checks on Officers
The government has directed intelligence agencies to prepare a list of all the senior army and civil officers who have retired during the last two years and information about their present occupation. It has been learnt that the government is contemplating some checks on senior officers taking up employment with private companies and overseas firms immediately after retirement. There is special scrutiny on top-ranking officers who had sought voluntary retirement to take up jobs with private companies.
Busan fire
After a grim, daylong search, authorities in the southern port city of Busan put the death toll at 37 and said 75 people were injured in a fire that raged through a tourist hotel. Military helicopters that joined firefighters were credited with saving nearly a score of people, lifting them from the root of the 10-storey hotel or plucking them from open windows.
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