Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workday was just an hour old. Nearly 200 employees in the red-tiled colonial building that houses Colombo's central telegraph offices were busy at their posts. Customers had begun to queue up to pay bills, make calls at the public phone booths and send telegrams. Suddenly the morning routine was shattered by an explosion that echoed throughout the downtown area of the capital. Two floors of the three-story structure collapsed. As rescue workers sifted through the wreckage for survivors, police commandeered cars to transport the wounded to hospitals. Twelve people died and more than 100 were injured...
...blast came only four days after a bomb went off in the tail section of an Air Lanka Lockheed Tristar L-1011 minutes before a delayed takeoff from the Katunayake International Airport, 18 miles outside Colombo. Airline officials insisted that all luggage had been X-rayed, but the bomb is believed to have been hidden in a crate of vegetables, which apparently was not examined. The explosion snapped the plane in two as flames and debris shot from the broken fuselage. Passengers were hurriedly evacuated. Sixteen people died, most of them European and Japanese tourists on their way to beach...
Last week's acts of sabotage followed bloody clashes between rival rebel factions over how to respond to a visit by an Indian peace delegation to Colombo. The attacks would seem to indicate that the militant Tigers have triumphed and are intent on thwarting any accord between the government and more moderate Tamils. The Colombo government has rebuked the rebels for engaging in terrorist acts and promised that it "will not allow such acts of terrorism to affect the peace efforts...
...Furio Colombo, president of Fiat, USA, explains why his parent company, * which builds airplane engines, agricultural equipment and airports as well as automobiles, turns to Kissinger Associates: "He understands not just the external factors but the company's inside way of thinking, the different kinds of products, different cultural needs. He is both flexible and deep, two things that don't come together easily...
...Mafia lawyer worked closely with reputed Colombo Family Lieutenant Gregory Scarpa, tipping off the mobster about clients of his who he thought might be cooperating with federal authorities. The penalty for informing: execution. Said Light of Scarpa: "He could have dinner with you, then when it comes time for dessert, he could kill...