Word: kumaratunga
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...Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad in January, however, is unclear. Peace Threat SRI LANKA Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran warned the country's divided leadership he would revive his demands for an independent state if the peace process remained stalled. He denied accusations by President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the rebels are using the current truce as a cover to re-arm. Peace talks broke down last month when Kumaratunga said the government was making too many concessions to the Tigers. Hostage Handover COLOMBIA Leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) released two of the seven foreign...
...call by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions for a two-day strike to protest the arrests had elicited a lukewarm response. More than 30 of the original demonstrators remained in detention. Archive: Zimbabwe in TIME Time To Talk SRI LANKA A joint committee set up by President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should work out new power-sharing arrangements by Dec. 15, Kumaratunga's spokesman announced, and so end a bitter tussle between the two rivals that threatens to derail efforts to end the 20-year-long civil war. E.U. External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten travels...
...reform program, despite a surge in support for the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which gained 40 seats. Who's In Charge Here? SRI LANKA The Norwegian government said it would withdraw from its role as mediator in the peace process until the power struggle between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was resolved. Kumaratunga has accused Wickremesinghe of conceding too much in the negotiations with the separatist Tamil Tigers. Sri Lanka: Peace in The Balance Diabetes Hope U.S. Massachusetts General Hospital scientists announced a breakthrough that may lead to a cure for insulin-dependent diabetes. The researchers...
...drove into Colombo, a smiling and joking Wickremesinghe was clearly relishing what he saw as a strategic blunder by a President who he believed had overplayed her hand and succeeded only in galvanizing his support. The unexpected scale of his reception appeared to confirm the widespread assessment that Kumaratunga was in danger of losing any trace of moral authority and also any snap election she called. Gesturing at the crowds, Wickremesinghe said, "I can't complain, can I? If there is a crisis here, the crisis is not mine...
Chandrika Kumaratunga President, 58 ? Elected: November 1994 ? Powers: Appoints the Prime Minister. Can suspend or dissolve Parliament, call elections and declare state of emergency. Commands the military ? Style: Regal (her father and mother were both Prime Ministers), combative, and tough (her father and husband were both assassinated). Friends say she became even more resolute after losing the use of one eye in a Tiger bomb attack in 1999 ? View of Prime Minister: That he stole the peace process she started and is conceding too much to the Tigers...