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...crowded main bus station, they opened fire with automatic weapons, killing about 100 men, women and children. Then they drove to the Sri Maha Bodhiya, a sacred Buddhist site, and fired indiscriminately into a crowd that included nuns and monks. The rebels continued on to Sri Lanka's northwest coast, attacking a police station and a game sanctuary on the way, and may have escaped by boat to India, where the Tamil Nadu state is home to 50 million Tamils. The macabre ride resulted in the massacre of 146 people...
...Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the soldiers ordered the settlers to leave. Said Otniel Schneller, the West Bank Settlement Council director: "We decided to move out because we didn't want to clash...
...electronic eavesdropping at the U.S. embassy in Moscow has again raised questions about the sites chosen for the new Soviet and American embassies being built in each country. After six years of negotiations ending in a 1969 agreement, the Soviets were provided with a location on Mount Alto in northwest Washington, D.C., one of the highest spots in the area, while the U.S. was left to build in low, marshy ground near the Moscow River...
...York about three times a month. He stays in the company's three-room suite at the Waldorf Towers. In Boca Raton, Fla., he owns a condominium (with five bathrooms) overlooking the Atlantic. But much of his time he spends at home in Bloomfield Hills, a sylvan suburb northwest of Detroit...
...past, the four-floored museum had housed solely permanent collections, but this exhibit, which features over 200 artifacts, drawings, and paintings from the Peabody's collection of the Northwest Indian, changes the Peabody's traditional look...