WORLD IN BRIEF : NEPAL : Opposition Leader Insists on Elections
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Opposition leader Ganesh Man Singh said Nepal’s pro-democracy movement will not rest until the Himalayan kingdom has free elections. Singh, under house arrest, said his party does not want to dismantle the monarchy but that King Birendra “has seen the writing on the wall. That is why the government has resorted to violence.”
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