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through- the streets and 2 flngflf Zimn THURS NOV. 10, I 7 countryside. Thert alrea- dy is a baa on slaughter- banned the slaughtering Is have been arrested in a po Ing in much of the- coun- negligible. lice roundup that followed try, and where It is not More than 1,000 persons the outbreak. Thousands in India Face Starvation Death Last Hope for Rain Gone; Crop Failures Mrs.

Gandhi Takes Control of India Police 1966 the akraa tilled by police bullets after a mob of tens of thousands of Hindus erupted into violence and destruction in front of the Parli-sment Building and then moved to other parts of the city. Famine-plagued India has 250 nillion cows, whieh 4 considered isSSCS Hindu religion and roam at large HOKSC AH.H0 UUiOKN TO THE KKX DMY ml SUNCM XSony, ao ini Rrinn Wnrcf Crici Sinre Inaenennence nv nnMMrv TinMt Stiff Writir arciiwa Ymu RESTAURANTS Sunset I la Bret Hollywood 6th Vermont Midtown Ventura I Petit Encini fM mm $T59 NEW DELKSt o- Prime Ministef Gandhi took control of India's police Wednesday in a cabinet change forced on her by bloody rioting over the slaughter of cows. With crucial national elections approaching early next year, Mrs. Gandhi requested the resignation of Home Minister Gulzari Lai Nanda, whose responsibilities included the police. President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan accepted it.

He gave the portfolio temporarily to Mrs. Gandhi. Hindu Violence The executive committee of the ruling Congress Party and opposition groups had accused Nanda of failing to take adequate measures to prevent the rampage in the capital Monday by Hindu extremists demanding a total ban on the slaughter of cows. Eight persons were 400-Day PenMim Clocks from Germany the gift of time most precious of all gifts! For Christmas this year, select one of our prized pendulum clocks gleaming and glass-domed and tall as they run reliably without winding for 400 days. Each a collector's piece, a significant tribute to the traditional skill of Western Germany's clockmakers they're at least twice the price elsewhere! 14.99 to 25.99 such as the last two, the canal system has not been large enough to provide adequately for irrigation.

Visitors to the area report having seen croplands in eastern Uttar Pradesh which had re-ceived three. waterings from canals and wells, but the crop had failed because it did not receive a fourth watering. The government has started scattered relief projects in the area for tillers whose subsistence has now been reduced to zero. People in some badly affected areas have already started moving off the land into the towns in search of jobs that are few and far between. May Shift Program Some American relief organizations, such as CARE, have started special child-feeding programs in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in an effort to relieve the pressure.

They are reported to be con-s i i closing down some programs in relatively more affluent parts of India and concentrating on the "drought bowl." The succession of dry years has resulted in a drastic lowering of the un-derground water level throughout the area, making irrigation by means of small pumps more diff i-cult, especially in hill areas. Even on the plains the water table is down to 20 feet below ground level. The Indian government has negotiations under way at present for purchase of 2 million tons of American wheat and milo for Indian currency under U.S. Public Law 480. Officials expect the worst period of hardship to come in February and March.

Others say it won't come before July or Au "Complete Early Bird" DINNERS Served 5-7 P.M. Daily SUNDAY i-J P.M. All RESTAURANTS Ul A PI PATIHHA iuuai a jLitwiun NEW DELHI Thousands of people in a vast dust bowl in Northeastern Jndia face certain death by Starvation in the coming months, it is now being conceded by government officials attempting to "cope with India's worst food crisis since independence. The last hopes for rain in the area, which consists of the entire state of Bihar end the eastern third of TJttar Pradesh state, have now withered. Dazed villagers squatting on the cracked soil of useless fields in many localities where the summer grain crop failed complete-Jy and the winter crop has not even been planted know that only outside relief can save them.

Relief Uncertain Whether such relief materializes or not is uncertain. This is the second consecutive year of drought in the area, and reserve stocks which helped tide over last year's critical shortage are now exhausted. Even help in the form of wheat shipped in from the United States is less certain than it was last year, since American stocks are down toll quarter the size they were when a vast ar? mada of wheat ships prevented famine in India last year. A team of nutritionists belonging to the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), which toured the drought area, has just turned in a report to American Ambassador Chester Bowles.

Their conclusions are as grim as they could be, ac-cording to diplomatic sources. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi herself spent sev-eral days earlier this month inspecting the drought area and pledged all possible assistance in overcoming "the present natural calamity." Along one 40-mile stretch of road covered by Mrs. Gandhi's car, not a single field on either side of the road was sown to grain or any other crop. Bihar, with a population of 52 million, produces 7 million tons of grain in a normal year. But this year it will be lucky to register a grain crop of 3 million tons.

Officials say the crop loss will be in the same ratio in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, a state that is even more densely populated than Bihar. Last August there was still hope that late monsoon rains would save the summer corp. Those rains failed to develop, and by October the government was expressing hope that with some autumn rainfall one-half the crops could still be saved. No Summer Crop In many districts there was no summer crop to harvest at all. In others, nearer wells which made localized possible, just enough of a crop survived to make fodder for cattle.

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