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...firm has been involved in some of the past decade's worst calamities: the collapse of Idaho's Teton Dam in 1976 (eleven dead, damage $1 billion), the huge fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in 1980 (85 dead, hundreds injured), and the collapsed skywalks at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 (113 dead, 186 hurt). Robins Zelle's latest big victory came last fall with an estimated $38 million settlement for 199 clients injured by the Dalkon Shield...
...buildup began in February. In the dead of night, 200 men in camouflage uniforms, each carrying a new AK-47 rifle and two grenades, left their secret training camps in India and gathered by the edge of the sea. At a quiet command, they slipped into plastic, wide-bottomed boats and set off, guided by fishermen who steered by the stars. In less than two hours, the fighters had crossed 26 miles of the Palk Strait and were wading ashore, ready to wage war in Sri Lanka...
...hundreds of the so- called Tamil Tigers cut off electricity in the northern city of Jaffna, blasted the town hall and municipal offices with explosives and attacked the heavily fortified police station. After the biggest battle of the year, said a government spokesman, 21 Tamils and five policemen were dead...
...response to Tiger attacks, the army often "went berserk and resorted to arbitrary shootings and killings of Tamils." Last December, for example, after a soldier was killed in the northern Mannar district, his comrades went on a rampage, shooting anyone in sight and leaving more than 100 Tamil civilians dead. Tamil women have been raped, Hindu temples put to the torch. In all, the commission cited 74 instances over a period of five months of soldiers indiscriminately firing on civilians. The government's policy of offering a $200 prize for each Tiger killed has served only to incite further army...
...alone administer their newly won territory. For the moment, however, such long-term considerations do not keep the guerrillas from pursuing more immediate goals. "When we begin the major assault," warns K. Umamaheswaran, a Tiger leader, "there will be no turning back. We want to see Sinhalese soldiers dead on the ground...