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...happy here, because I don’t have to live with it and deal with it everyday,” said Nilanthi D. Gunawardane ’05, an international student from Sri Lanka, where the president declared a state of emergency in assuming wide executive powers, in an internal political struggle, in early November. “But because my family is there, I worry about them all the time...
...Sri Lanka's Crisis In your story on Sri Lanka's political situation [Nov. 17], you stated that President Chandrika Kumaratunga "declared a state of emergency, then declined to sign the order two days later." This is completely false. For a state of emergency to be declared, the President of Sri Lanka has to sign a proclamation, which has to be gazetted together with the emergency regulations. As this was not the case on this occasion, a state of emergency was never promulgated. You stated that the President "ordered a nationwide deployment of the army, which subsequently denied receiving...
...current FDA policy is unnecessarily inconvenient and the United States is embarrassingly behind the rest of the world in offering this pregnancy prevention option. Emergency contraception was already available over the counter in 26 countries by 2000, ranging from Britain, Israel and Switzerland to Sri Lanka, Albania and Madagascar. If women around the world can handle the daunting task of taking a pill all by themselves, why can’t we? For a country that professes to be a leader in the global fight for women’s rights and access to birth control, we certainly drag...
...years - along the Line of Control, their de facto border in the disputed territory. Whether Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee will hold talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of a South 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...
...taking part in demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe. A 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...