European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes sunday june 16, 1991 new Delhi up a voting ended saturday in three phase elections marked by the worst violence and the lowest turnout in Indian parliamentary history and interrupted by the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. V polls have predicted a sympathy wave generated by Gandhi a slaying would give his former Congress party the largest number of seats in the lower House of parliament but leave it Short of an outright majority. At least 16 people died and Many More were injured in clashes Between supporters of rival parties and attacks by armed gangs on polling centers despite tight Security in saturdays third and final round of ballot Ting the press Trust of India reported. Officials said among those killed were two Scafidi dates in Southern Andra Pravesh state one of them from prime minister Chandra Shekhar a Peoples socialist party. A gang also took Over a polling station in Shekhar a constituency in Northern utter Pravesh state prompting the presiding officer to flee. At least 278 people have been killed during the Campaign and balloting making it the bloodiest election since India gained Independence from Britain in 1947. More than 540 million people about 10 percent of the worlds population a were eligible to vote in the three phase parliamentary elections. The first Days balloting was May 20, but Gandhi a assassination the next Day forced the government to postpone the two remaining rounds for three weeks. Vote counting begins sunday morning but first results arc not expected until the afternoon and a Clear trend is unlikely to emerge before monday. Gandhi a assassination May 21 threw the elections into turmoil. The former prime minister was killed moments before he was to address a Campaign rally attended by about 10,000 people in the town of  near the tamil Nadu state capital of Madras. As he was being greeted by supporters a woman later identified As a sri lankan tamil named than placed a Garland of Flowers around his neck bowed to touch his feet in seeming reverence and then triggered a bomb strapped to her Waist. The explosion killed Gandhi the Assassin and 16 other people. Authorities late Friday arrested two alleged acco Swiss women strike to protest in prices in the attack a an Indian ethnic tamil woman named Nalini 27, and an 18-year-old sri lankan tamil identified As muru Gam. Police on wednesday detained Nalinie smother and brother who allegedly housed the conspirators in. Madras for More than two weeks prior to the assassination. But authorities Are still searching for the Man they believe was the Mastermind behind the slaying a the chief of the intelligence Wing of the liberation tigers of tamil eelam a sri lankan rebel group. Officials have identified the Man As Sivaraman and say he posed As a press reporter at the rally. Authorities were Able to break open the Case with the unwitting help of free Lance photographer Hari Babu who snapped a series of dramatic pictures right up to the moment of the bomb explosion. News reports have said Hari Babu was part of the assassination plot. The first two people arrested in the Case told interrogators Hari Babu had been told Gan Chi would be shot rather than killed in a bomb explosion. As a result the photographer stood to close to the prime minister and was killed the reports said. V i amp it Geneva apr hundreds of thousands of Swiss women left their jobs on Friday to protest continuing discrimination a 20 years after women won the right to vote and a decade after sexual Equality became Law. A the Day of protest was called to renew demands for equal pay and employment for women better child care and fairer social Security Laws. About 500,000 women took part the Swiss Trade Union federation said. A the protest was without precedent in a land where strikes Are taboo1 and where there is Little record of Radical feminism. A women have been patient too Long a said a leaflet published by the Trade Union movement. A your daughters future will be decided  even so. The organizers slogan a a when women Stop everything stops a turned out to be an overstatement. Economic life went on normally because most women chose to engage in Token work stoppages for Short periods rather than full Day strikes. According to official statistics Domeij in Switzerland earned in average one third Jess than men in 1989. Only about 4 percent of top business jobs Are held by women. Many women also complain that Swiss social Security Laws do not recognize housewives work and women Are forced to pay higher medical insurance premiums than men. They say a shortage of child care centers makes it harder for mothers to hold Down careers. This is despite a constitutional amendment approved by a National referendum in 1981 establishing equal rights for men and women a in particular in the domains of family education and  during one demonstration on Friday several eggs were hurled at a gathering of foreign dignitaries including . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar. The officials were attending a ceremony at parliament in Bern to Mark Switzerland a 700th anniversary. No one was Hurt and there were no arrests. In the town of Fribourg women temporarily blocked the entrances of two department stores. Bells chimed in the watchmaking Center of la Chaux de Fonds to Mark a 45-minute work stoppage there. The Day of action Drew mixed reactions front employers who Are used to untroubled labor relations. Joanne Burgisser a strike organizer in Geneva said some department stores threatened women with dismissal if they took time out to strike. Many firms said women wishing to strike should take unpaid leave or vacation. Women themselves were divided on the need for action. Eugenie Pollack head of the Swiss women a army said she. Did not like the word a strike a but backed the Day of action a because society needed to be made aware of sexual  a Swiss woman wheels her pampered a a Bossy around during fridays  finnish soldiers drown when pc sinks Helsinki Finland a seven soldiers drowned when an armoured personnel Carrier Sank in a Lake in Southeast Finland National radio reported saturday. 1 i the  during a military exercise on Friday evening at the Taipa Saari army a Camp near the town of Lappee Granta. The soviet made amphibious ptr-60 vehicle was crossing a Lake when it suddenly Sank with a Crew of 14. Seven soldiers were trapped in the overturned vehicle at a depth of 105 feet the radio report said. 1 seven others who were seated on top of the vehicle managed to escape. The 13-ton ptr-60 vehicle is widely used around the world. Anc backed demonstrations erupt in South Africa cities Johannesburg South Africa apr thousands of african National Congress supporters took to the streets in protests throughout the country on saturday calling for a jobs peace and  the marches organized jointly by the Anc the South african communist party and the Congress of South african Trade unions were held to protest the governments failure to meet Anc demands an official said. The demonstrations took place on the eve the 15th anniversary of the Soweto massacre in which hundreds of protesting Blacks were killed by police. In Cape town 1,000 people marched to parliament. In Durban 2,000 marched to the regional offices of the department of manpower and in Johannesburg about 5,000 marched to police Headquarters located on John Vorster Square. A letter of demand addressed to president . C Klerk was handed Over at each March. Singing protesters in Central Johannesburg March along main streets blocking traffic. Police kept Wati but there were no apparent incidents. At John Vorster Square the protesters cheered a waved when they spotted a Lone hand waving an an Flag from a jail cell window. A number of protest leaders including Joe so who Heads the sap led the demonstration. Addressing the cheering crowd Slovon said a the can be no peace without Freedom there can be no fre Dom without  referring to the mass protests he said Quot we w continue voting with our feet until we can vote