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...organization is so weak. If we push it more, maybe we can finally eliminate it." Abu Sayyaf members are now said to be so cash-strapped they have turned again to kidnapping civilians for ransom. In January, suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen killed a priest during a botched kidnapping on Tawi Tawi Island, not far from Jolo. On June 8 Ces Drilon, a well-known local TV-news anchor, vanished with her cameraman and an assistant near Jolo in what appears to be another Abu Sayyaf abduction...
...added that Pakistani casualties were heavier. The Pakistanis' aim was to strike for the Indian city of Jammu and the 200-mile-long Jammu-Srinagar highway, which links India with the Vale of Kashmir. The Indians were forced to retreat from the west bank of the Munnawar Tawi River, where they had tried desperately to hold...
...Contest. Dewa and Chhamb were swiftly captured by the armored column, which rolled forward some eight miles against light resistance and halted by the banks of the shallow Munawar Tawi River. The Indian counterattack came from the sky-28 British-made Vampire jets bombed and strafed the armored force, destroying an estimated ten tanks before Pakistani supersonic F-86 Sabres streaked to the rescue. It was no contest: four of the slower Indian planes were shot down, and the rest scattered...
KARANSINGH Prince of Kashmir Jammu-Tawi, India...
When he lately introduced a bill in Congress for partitioning the Philippines and establishing a second native government under the U. S. control in the islands of Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, Siassi, Tawi Tawi and a few others, Representative Robert Low Bacon of New York dwelt chiefly upon the temperamental and tribal differences of the morose Mohammedan Moros who live in those places and the Christian Filipinos who control the present government at Manila; upon the wisdom and justice of treating these immiscible citizens as the British treated the two strains of Irishmen. (TIME, June...
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