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Virtually every night since then, small groups of guerrillas have stolen across the waters to prepare for a showdown battle with the Sri Lankan army. Last week the war all but broke out. First the rebels, who represent the island's 2.6 million mostly Hindu Tamils in a separatist struggle against 11 million mainly Buddhist Sinhalese, killed three civilians whom they suspected of being government informers. Then they planted a bomb that ripped apart sections of a train in the capital, Colombo. Finally, hundreds of the so- called Tamil Tigers cut off electricity in the northern city of Jaffna, blasted...
...weeks before Rama Rao's fall in Andhra Pradesh, Gandhi loyalists had similarly ousted the chief minister of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The furor over Rama Rao's removal has probably bought time for the chief ministers of the other four states-Karnataka, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. In an unaccustomed show of unity last week, opposition politicians met in New Delhi to protest what they called the "blatantly unconstitutional" dismissals and the "extinction of democracy." The leaders insisted that the Prime Minister was directly responsible for "this dangerous game of destabilization," and agreed...
...bloodshed was triggered by the incendiary actions of a small group of Tamil extremists who contend that their race, which accounts for 11% of the nation's 15 million people, should be granted a separate homeland in northern Sri Lanka. Over the past six years the secessionists have planted bombs, set government buildings ablaze and, according to the government, killed 73 Sinhalese in and around the Tamil-dominated northern city of Jaffna. Only two weeks ago, Tamil terrorists ambushed and slaughtered 13 Sinhalese soldiers...
...other constituencies. Wholly loyal, these young politicians even imitated Sanjay's customary dress: a pajama suit and kashmir shawl. More recently, Sanjay had run the campaign of his mother's party in state elections, where it won majorities in eight legislative assemblies and lost only in Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras...
Angell eschews, with unjustifiable modesty, comparison with the métier's creator, whom he salutes in a touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...