May 23, Forty Years Ago: JP for Revolution

Naxal violence
Naxalites killed a CRPF constable in an ambush near Dullamchak, a village in Bihar’s Bhojpur district. The Left rebels immobilised the car he was travelling in and sprayed bullets on the passengers. JP asked the Bihar government to realise the aspirations of Bhojpur’s poor and not resort to violence.

Soviet purge
Alexander Shelepin, chairman of the presidium of the USSR Central Council of Trade Unions, was relieved of his post. The month before, Shelepin had been removed from the Communist Party politburo. Former head of the KGB, he was once considered the main rival of party chief Leonid Brezhnev.

Doctors in Britain
Indian medical degrees obtained henceforth would no longer be acceptable for full registration to practise in Britain, the General Medical Council announced. The council, which governs the British medical profession, stressed that the decision would not affect doctors already practising in Britain.