The World - News from Nov. 17, 1988

India’s Supreme Court lifted a stay on the execution of two Sikhs sentenced to death by hanging for the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the United News of India reported. The action removed legal bars to the execution of the two, who also have the right to petition the president of India for mercy. One already has done so. The news agency said a two-judge panel dismissed a request to stay the execution while a complaint filed by one of the Sikhs was being resolved. Gandhi was slain in New Delhi, apparently in revenge for an army attack she had ordered on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest Sikh shrine.