HOUSTON CHRONICLE ARCHIVES



Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Date: SAT 01/07/89
Section: A
Page: 20
Edition: 3 STAR

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S. Africa police attacked

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Attackers hurled hand grenades at a group of marching police officers in a black township east of Johannesburg, killing two and wounding 31, police said Friday.

The grenades were thrown over the wall surrounding the municipal police station in the Kathlehong township as the police were participating in a parade Thursday night, police said.

Both slain officers were black, as are 30 of those injured, police said. Extradition sought

BHOPAL , India - India will seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corp. Chairman Warren Anderson over the Bhopal gas disaster, a government prosecutor said Friday.

U.S. Prasad told a Bhopal court that arrest warrants issued in November for Anderson and two other Carbide officials had not been served because of U.S. and Hong Kong legal restrictions. Sikhs kill 10 in Punjab

NEW DELHI, India- Suspected Sikh separatists look 10 people froma Punjab farmhouse and killed them hours after two Sikhs were executedfor the assassination of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, police said Saturday.

The attack brings to at least 50 the total deaths since Jan. 1 in the militant campaign for an independent Sikh homeland in Punjab.