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senior journalists in the procession and yet they ordered the lathi-charge. The conclusion is unmistakable that there was a pre-planned design to break the heads of journalists.'' Several other incidents were reported during the year. They included the July demonstration by Congress(I) men outside the office of Lokmot, a Marathi daily published from Nagpur, in a fashion very similar , to the demonstrations and gherao by Youth Congress workers against four newspaper offices in Bangalore two years ago. On September 28, suspected Congress(I) workers ransacked the printing press of Amruth, a Kannada weekly in Mangalore. In Bhopal, Cong- ress(I) leader Ladlusharan Singh threatened to "settle scores in streets" with Swadeshi, a BhopaJ Hindi daily, during a demonstration on September 26.

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