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After a week of fighting, Sri Lankan troops had battled their way up Jaffna Peninsula, ousting ethnic Tamil separatists from a number of strongholds in the northern tip of the island nation. The cost was high: as many as 200 civilians believed dead and thousands more left without food. But, said a high-ranking official in Colombo, the capital, "we were winning...
...rebels, the Indian government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which up until then had been trying to mediate the civil war, dispatched 19 fishing boats laden with food and medical supplies across the Palk Strait to the battle zone. Condemning the shipment as interference in its internal affairs, Sri Lanka sent naval vessels to interdict the convoy, which was turned back after a tense confrontation in mid-strait...
...could not decide whether he favored males or females ("Let's just say that I preferred to be on top"), so he sought out Graham for counsel. She told him to stop worrying about it. A few years later, after glimpsing a beautiful young man while on tour in Sri Lanka, he turned to homosexuality. But he continued to have affairs with women, always griping about the shortcomings of either arrangement. Nonetheless, through the tantrums a saving wit always comes to the rescue. After one dark rumination he cries, "What's a gender...
...explosion capped the bloodiest week yet since the outbreak of civil war four years ago. The government of President Junius R. Jayewardene blamed two separatist groups for the violence: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Eelam Revolutionary Organization. Sri Lanka's 2 million Tamils have long protested against political and economic discrimination by the country's 16 million Sinhalese. While moderate Tamil leaders have attempted to negotiate a settlement of the conflict, the Tigers and other militant groups have demanded an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern provinces...
Separatist bombings hit Sri Lanka. -- In Argentina, placating the military. The Soviets let some entrepreneurs go for profits...