This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 06, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
Terrorists inside the Golden Temple complex for the first time used medium machine guns and mortars against the security forces. Two persons, a security personnel and a labourer, were killed in the firing. It was not known whether there was any casualty inside the Golden Temple. (Resistance from the extremists inside the Temple seemed to be crumbling, reports PTI.)
Radio Pakistan
The government censorship of the Punjab press has turned villagers of the state towards Radio Pakistan. With the widespread reliance on it, the censorship policy seems to have backfired. A group of youths sitting under a tree in Diba village said they had the latest news. To prove this, they came out with a series of wild stories.
Gulf War
Iraqi warplanes bombed the western Iranian border town of Baneh, killing or wounding more than 600 people, and Iran vowed to bomb 11 Iraqi cities and towns in retaliation, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported. Without directly commenting on the Iranian report on the attack on Baneh, Iraq threatened to bomb 5 Iranian cities if the Iranians carried out their threats, according to a report in Baghdad.
Missions Attacked
Militant Sikhs failed in their attempt to intrude into the Indian High Commission building in London but they forced their way into the ground floor and wounded three India-based security guards. All this happened in the presence of a lone police constable who, dazed over the unexpected incident asked his headquarters for help. A contingent of police rushed to the scene only after the damage had been done.
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