00793pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002200040245002900062260000900091300001600100362001000116520042300126650003600549650002800585773003400613180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBanerjee, Sumanta  aNepal: a new flashpoint?  c2002  ap.3715-716.  a7 Sep  aIt is not surprising that the Nepal government is eager to brand the Maoists as terrorists and tie its actions against them to the US-led anti-terrorist compaign and obtain arms and ammunition.  The Maoists have become a threat to the monarch and the ruling interests, rallying as they have the hitherto dispossessed mainly from the depressed castes from far-flung rural areas against local feudal lords. - Reproduced.  aNepal - Politics and government  aPolitics and government  aEconomic and Political Weekly