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...deaths, tentative steps were taken last week toward a settlement between Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist movements and the government of President Junius Jayewardene. Under pressure from India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the island nation's warring factions began peace talks in Thimbu, capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Shortly afterward the government, which is dominated by Sri Lanka's 70% majority of Sinhalese Buddhists, lifted nighttime curfews imposed on five northern districts heavily populated by Tamil-speaking Hindus. The government also released 643 of 1,197 Tamil prisoners who had been arrested under an antiterrorism...
...Bhutan This Himalayan nation became the first to prohibit not only smoking in public, but also all sales of tobacco. In a kingdom with few smokers (owing in part to a local belief that traces the tobacco plant's origin to a she-devil), the black-market price of a pack of Marlboros has doubled, to $2.60, since the ban took effect in December...
When Jigme Singye Wangchuck was crowned king of the Himalayan nation of Bhutan in 1972, he declared he was more concerned with ?Gross National Happiness? than with Gross Domestic Product. This probably didn?t come as a surprise to the forest-laden country?s 810,000 to 2.2 million (estimates vary greatly) residents, most of whom are poor subsistence farmers. Bhutan?s GDP is a mere $2.7 billion, but Wangchuck still maintains that economic growth does not necessarily lead to contentment, and instead focuses on the four pillars of GNH: economic self-reliance, a pristine environment, the preservation and promotion...
...Heritage at Risk TIME's story on Donald and Shelley Rubin, collectors of Himalayan art [Dec. 13], surprised me because it seemed to glorify the collecting of foreign antiquities. Although I have no reason to suspect that the Rubins acquired their Far Eastern artifacts illegally, your magazine has, in the past, sought to highlight the destruction of Asia's cultural heritage and expose the damage done by illegal trading in antiquities. Legitimate collectors undoubtedly have a deep admiration for the art they buy, but their passion fuels an international trade that ultimately leads to the destruction of the cultural heritage...
...Behind the scenes, the new U.S. Administration should help broker a settlement between India and Pakistan over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, says Riffat Hussain, professor of security studies at Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University. That would defuse tension between these two nuclear-armed enemies. A partial settlement over Kashmir could be one major surprise in the offing. Musharraf has suggested dropping Pakistan's insistence that a referendum be held among Kashmiris to choose whether they want the territory to belong to India or Pakistan. But President Bush will also have to decide whether to push Musharraf into...