Word: chandrika
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...woman and a mother," but she could be ruthless: her hamhanded suppression of a Marxist insurrection in 1971 resulted in 20,000 casualties. Bandaranaike had a heart attack in a car on her way home from voting in the elections won by the party led by her daughter, President Chandrika Kumaratunga...
...Reported by William Dowell and Romesh Ratnesar/New York, Barry Hillenbrand/Washington, Chandrika Narayan/Dallas and Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles
...army pays out a lifetime's salary to the families of its slain soldiers - and right now that policy may be set to place new strains on the defense budget. Tamil Tiger rebel forces reportedly broke through government lines near the town of Jaffna Wednesday, two days after President Chandrika Kumaratunga rejected a rebel truce offer allowing her troops safe passage out of the beleaguered Jaffna peninsula, vowing instead to defend the territory to the last man. The secessionist fighters, who regard Jaffna as the capital of their desired homeland of Tamil Eelam, last week delivered a crushing blow...
...Lankan army last recovered Jaffna after a bloody battle in 1994, but last week's setback wipes out years of painstaking territorial gains against the guerrillas. Now the government of Chandrika Kumaratunga, which has made taking a hard line against the guerrillas the centerpiece of its tenure, faces the humiliating prospect of having to negotiate a cease-fire with the LTTE in order to save thousands of its soldiers. And the rebels, who are fighting for independence for the mostly Tamil northern provinces they refer to as Eelam (the Hindu Tamil form about 20 percent of Sri Lanka's population...
...With reporting by JeanneDeQuine/Miami, Maureen Harrington/Denver, Anne Moffett/Washington, Chandrika Narayan/Dallas and Megan Rutherford/New York