WORLD IN BRIEF : INDIA : New Governor Named for Kashmir
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
New Delhi replaced the hard-line governor of Jammu and Kashmir state to ease the way toward talks on ending a bloody three-year Muslim insurrection. Under the governorship of Girish Chander Saxena, India deployed massive force in the Kashmir Valley and its capital, Srinagar, to crush the insurrection. Gen. K. V. Krishna Rao, the newly appointed governor, will be sworn in today, returning to the office he held four years ago.
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