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...Defense of Sri Lanka In your story "Warring Parties" [March 29], you wrote that President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga kept a campaign-rally crowd waiting for three hours. The President was asked to arrive at 4:30 p.m. and not before, as per usual practice at major political rallies in the country. She arrived at the scheduled time. You wrote that the President "used her constitutional powers to seize [the Prime Minister's] government while he was on a visit to Washington." The President took control of 3 ministries out of 68, which is not seizing the government. You wrote that...
...Lanka was enjoying a cease-fire between the government and the Tigers; the economy was growing; and investors were tentatively returning. Those hopes are now on hold?and not just because of Tiger infighting. The government is also in disarray following elections last week in which President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party failed to win a parliamentary majority. Without it, Kumaratunga "cannot do everything stated in her manifesto," says Jeremy Clarke, who heads the International Monetary Fund's Sri Lankan operations. Last week, she found she had insufficient authority to install her choice for Prime Minister, former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar...
...Tiger, Tiger SRI LANKA Thousands of civilians fled their homes as rival factions of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar...
...days hit the country's remote eastern Papua province. Casualty estimates for the second quake weren't immediately available, but scientists measured it at 7.1 on the Richter scale, higher than the initial temblor, which left more than two dozen dead. Let the People Decide SRI LANKA President Chandrika Kumaratunga dissolved the country's Parliament - paving the way for snap elections on April 2 - in a bid to win a bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, majority leader of the 225-member legislature. Kumaratunga's ongoing feud with the Prime Minister has stalled peace talks with rebel Tamil...
...make a decision whether I am to continue in the office of President until 2006 or not." Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan President, disclosing that she took a second, secret oath of office in 2000 and therefore may extend her six-year term as President...