The World - News from July 30, 1985
India said it has asked the U.S. government to shut down what an Indian official called “terrorist schools” such as one near Birmingham, Ala., where Sikh extremists allegedly received weapons training. The minister of state for external affairs, Khurshed Alam Khan, told Parliament, “The White House has threatened stern action against any terrorist act toward the United States, but it should take the same stand in the case of terrorism towards other governments.” Two of the trainees at the camp were arrested in May in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Washington.
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