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After more than two years of civil strife that has led to some 2,000 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...
After studying in Switzerland and Germany, the cosmopolitan young Morgan arrived on Wall Street in 1857, serving as agent for his father Junius Spencer Morgan, who had taken over a London merchant bank. Though Pierpont participated in refinancing the Civil War debt in the 1870s, he acquired true imperial status in underwriting America's railroads...
...DIED. JUNIUS KELLOGG, 71, incorruptible cager who as a star collegiate center in 1951 exposed a point-shaving scheme that rocked the sport; in New York City. Kellogg, Manhattan College's first black basketball player, notified his coach after being asked to participate in what was revealed to be a widespread plot to fix games at seven colleges, a fateful decision that led to numerous players' arrests. Kellogg joined the Harlem Globetrotters after graduation, but a 1954 car accident left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. He went on to popularize and coach wheelchair basketball...
...DIED. JUNIUS JAYEWARDENE, 90, former President of Sri Lanka, whose reforms helped launch its economy but whose inability to stop a civil war has brought the country to a crash and cost it 50,000 lives so far; in Colombo...
NEAR THE END OF HIS DRAMA about an actual 19th century black stage troupe that briefly competed with Junius Brutus Booth, sire of the estimable Booth acting | clan, Carlyle Brown makes clear that much of his interest in the story is its pertinence to the multiculturalism debates of today. The African Company of 1820s New York City was, he recounts, harassed and shut down by white authorities who resented its ambition, feared its competition with white theaters (as when the Africans' Richard III was to play opposite Booth's version of the same play) and recoiled from the notion that...