Opinion June 15, 1976, Forty Years Ago: Indo-Pak Talks

A look at the front page of the Indian Express on June 14, forty years ago.

June 15, 2016 12:12 AM IST First published on: Jun 15, 2016 at 12:12 AM IST

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A look at the front page of the Indian Express on June 14, forty years ago.

Indo-Pak Talks

Indian and Pakistani civil aviation delegations that began talks in New Delhi, split into three sub-groups to sort out the specific problems in the way of restoring flights and overflights. One subgroup would look into air control and navigation; the second work out details regarding air services, customs and immigration facilities; and the third would decide how the countries were to go about withdrawing their complaints pending before the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

Lok Dal On Janata

The Bharatiya Lok Dal was sceptical about the new party and might not attend the proposed conference of opposition parties in Bombay on June 25 for launching it. A conference of BLD office-bearers, legislators and party workers which ended in Lucknow demanded that before the new party was floated, agreement should be reached on its policy statement and the existing parties should be dissolved. The conference regretted that neither the Old Congress nor the Socialist Party on the Jana Sangh had come out to support of the policy statement. They had also not yet resolved to dissolve themselves. The BLD had considered the draft prepared by the steering committee and sent an alternative .

Beirut Besieged

Syrian armoured forces occupied a key town in southern Lebanon as leftist leaders appealed to the Red Cross for food and medicines in besieged Beirut. Reports from Radjaya, 51 km south east of the capital, said Palestinian guerillas pulled out under Syrian artillery after a week of resistance. Artillery and rocket exchanges continued unabated along the devastated frontline separating Beirut and countryside into Muslim and Christian camps, security officials reported. They said their estimates showed about 70 persons were killed and twice that many wounded in the last 24-hour period.