The World - News from Dec. 16, 1985

Almost 100,000 troops and police officers were deployed in India’s Assam state to prevent a repetition of election violence that killed 4,000 in 1983. Officials said they believe the extraordinary security for today’s parliamentary and state balloting will be sufficient to deter a new wave of ethnic violence. The trouble grows out of a campaign by Assamese students, who sought to expel vast numbers of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. In return for an end to the student agitation, the Indian government agreed to eventually oust about 2 million of the immigrants--provoking the wrath of the Muslims and other minorities.