Word: tigers
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...Like smashing the pot when the milk in it is churning into butter, the Sri Lankan President has sabotaged the peace process at a crucial time." V. Karuna, a top Tamil Tiger military commander, on the President's decision last week to suspend Parliament and declare martial...
...Perhaps most alarming was the realization that Kumaratunga was counting on the Tigers to stand back calmly and watch the power struggle play out. The LTTE has previously refused to deal with the President, claiming it cannot trust her. "She's almost daring the Tigers to mobilize," Wickremesinghe told TIME on his return. Quite how dangerous a game Kumaratunga is playing is apparent in the small print of a public-security order she issued last Friday ordering the army to deploy across the island's 25 districts. If carried out to the letter, this would effectively mean a new army...
...dissolve Parliament, call elections and declare state of emergency. Commands the military ? Style: Regal (her father and mother were both Prime Ministers), combative, and tough (her father and husband were both assassinated). Friends say she became even more resolute after losing the use of one eye in a Tiger bomb attack in 1999 ? View of Prime Minister: That he stole the peace process she started and is conceding too much to the Tigers...
...which she lifted two days later - while Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was on a trip to Washington, D.C. Kumaratunga denied she was trying to grab power for its own sake, accusing Wickremesinghe of endangering national security through "willful neglect" of the military and granting too many concessions to Tamil Tiger rebels in peace negotiations...
...More Monkey Business Your item "cheetah, you ought to be Out of Pictures" [Oct. 13] on primatologist Jane Goodall's efforts to stop the use of actor-chimpanzees on TV and in movies, came at the perfect time. With the news of a tiger that was kept in a New York City apartment and the mauling of Las Vegas showman Roy Horn by a white tiger during a performance, people are finally understanding that wild animals belong in their natural environment. People lucky enough to travel to Africa can see these beautiful animals in their own territory. The only thing...