Word: chandrika
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...Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga condemned the attack in a written statement...
...damaged, including some of the city's best hotels. Nobody has claimed responsibility, but it is certain that it was the Tamil rebels. We knew a major attack would happen after the government forces overtook Jaffna, the rebels' seat of power last December. There will be pressure on President Chandrika Kumaratunga to increase military operations in the northern part of the country. But that might not be enough. The rebels have the manpower and capability to stage more attacks. And I expect them...
...result of a tug of war within the ruling clan. In this reading, Mrs. Bandaranaike used Perera's remark as an excuse to move away from the radical left-represented by her daughter Sunethra, who is coordinating secretary to the Prime Minister, her husband Kumar and sister Chandrika-and in the direction of her more conservative son Anura, 27, who has recently become chief organizer of the party's powerful Youth League. The shift to the right is seen as part of an emergency effort to shore up the country's failing economy-and the Prime Minister...