SRINAGAR, April 22 (1989): Hundreds of Hindus have moved out of a troubled district of Kashmir where 26 people were shot dead by Moslem guerrillas last week, police said Wednesday. A police spokesman said more than 1,000 people have shifted from the Hindu-dominated region of Udhampur to neigbouring districts. "By late Tuesday the exodus reached a peak and as many as 220 families have been accomodated in makeshift camps in adjoining districts," he said. Armed rebels opened fire on April 18 at Barankot village in...

SRINIGAR, April 18 (1989): "Welcome to Paradise" reads the banner greeting tourists who flock to the grandeur and serenity of India's Kashmir valley high in the Himalayas. But tourists are cancelling their trips in droves following April anti-government riots that killed at least five people and injured hundreds more. And many businessmen and politicians fear Moslem-majority Kashmir, where there is strong antagonism for Hindu-dominated India, is perched on top of a slippery slope into terror. The parallel they draw...

SRINAGAR, March 4 (1989):- Moslems enraged over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" fought pitched battles with police in northern India on Saturday after the U.N. secretary-general called for an end to the controversy. Nearly 40 people were injured in street battles in various parts of Kashmir, where three people have been killed and several hundred injured since Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called on Moslems last month to kill Rushdie. Police fired in the...