"The police have gone berserk in Kashmir," Mr. Gandhi, a former Prime Minister, told foreign correspondents.

"They talk of shock therapy," he told correspondents.

A northern colonel told correspondents the base was captured from southern troops 10 days ago, but another soldier said the last southern troops left on Wednesday.

Information Minister Anwar Zahid told foreign correspondents: "You cannot report anything against the emergency and on activities banned by it."

Administration officials told correspondents that they were looking for other ways to strengthen the 1972 treaty.

"It's a live question," Mr. Advani told foreign correspondents.

"If whites make a mistake and vote for repression, the country is in for a hard time," Mr. Mandela told foreign correspondents.

"I'm forced to move on different fronts at the same time, because it's a serious situation," Mr. Cavallo told foreign correspondents at a breakfast this week.

Mr. Brucan's transgression was to tell Western correspondents that the Communist leadership had lost touch with the workers and had become their exploiters.

Security forces had abandoned the working-class Tajoura district, after five days of anti-government demonstrations, residents told foreign correspondents who visited the area.