NC TO DECCIDE ON ELECTIONS SOON SAYS SUSHIL KOIRALA Kathmandu, 26 Oct.: Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala has said that his party would come up with a written decision on the election within some days, RSS reports.from Nepalgunj. Speaking in the joint meeting of the teachers and civil servants unions here on Friday, he said the party had reached an agreement in the past that the Constituent Assembly could not be revived and that the party should opt for fresh elections. He said that since no written decision on this was made at that time some leaders in the party were talking of reinstatement of the Constituent Assembly. The NC president reiterated that there was no other option than going for fresh election in the present circumstances. Stating that talks and protests would be taken ahead together for removing the government by coordinating with the opposition parties including the CPN (UML), party president Koirala called on the party cadres to come out with strong support to the anti-government protest front that will begin on November 9. Nnnn ________________________________________ NEW YORK POLICE CHARGED FOR ATTEMPT TO TORTURE AND EAT WOMAN Kathmandu, 26 Oct.: A New York City police officer was charged on Thursday with conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women whose names he kept in a list on his computer, Reuters reports from New York. Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, was arrested on Wednesday by the FBI, a spokesman for the agency said. In a criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, Valle was charged with conspiring to cross state lines to kidnap and with illegally accessing a federal database. The complaint said investigators had uncovered a file on Valle's computer containing the names and pictures of at least 100 women, as well as the addresses and physical descriptions of some of them. The complaint said that Valle had undertaken surveillance of some of the women at their work and at their home. In an excerpt of a July conversation with an unnamed co-conspirator, Valle is quoted in the complaint as saying: "I can just show up at her home unannounced, it will not alert her, and I can knock her out, wait until dark and kidnap her right out of her home." "I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus... cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible." The woman in question is identified only as "Victim 1." Valle was not charged with carrying out any of the alleged planned attacks, according to the charges, suggesting he was arrested before any of the targeted women were harmed. A lawyer for Valle could not immediately be identified. A spokesman for the New York Police Department could not immediately be reached for comment nnnn