Opinion September 24, Forty Years Ago: Attempt On Ford
A local policeman spied the gun, deflected it and the shot went to the pavement, as Ford crouched at the side of the presidential limousine on orders from a secret service agent, the report said.
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The Indian Express front page, forty years ago.
US President Gerald Ford escaped what seemed a second assassination attempt when a woman in a crowd in San Francisco fired a 0.38 calibre handgun at him and missed. A local policeman spied the gun, deflected it and the shot went to the pavement, as Ford crouched at the side of the presidential limousine on orders from a secret service agent, the report said. The woman was identified as Sarah Jane Moore, 46, and a member of a prisoners rights group in San Francisco area. She reportedly said she would have got the president if she had her 0.44 gun with her. Moore was an FBI informant, who had infiltrated the ranks of the radical group, and later, got converted to the cause.
Sinai Deal
Egypt and Israel concluded negotiations on how to put the Sinai peace agreement into effect. Israel had maintained it would sign the protocol only after the US gave its approval for the stationing of civilian technicians at early warning posts they would operate near strategic passes in the UN buffer zone between the two armies.
Bad Act
The Election Laws Amendment Act, 1975, to the extent it was made applicable retrospectively to protect the election of Indira Gandhi to the Lok Sabha, was bad and discriminatory, Shanti Bhushan, counsel for Raj Narain, MP, argued before the Supreme Court. He contended that the SC had in the Kesavananda Bharati case laid down the guiding principle of the basic features of the Constitution and Parliament could not make laws destructive of this principle.
Press To Blame
PM Indira Gandhi said the press in India was linked with big business and “they had not only become the mouthpiece of opposition but were also spearheading it”. Gandhi said the press had been “tailoring news stories to suit the opposition policies”.
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