NEW DELHI, India: The Tamils main political party said today Sri Lankans policy of settling Sinhalese in Tamil-dominated areas prompted recent guerrilla attacks on hales villagers, the Press Trust of India reported.
In a statement issued in the southern Indian city of Madras, the Tamil United Liberation Front said Sri Lanka authorities had adopted a “blatantly communal policy” of driving out Tamils from the islands eastern Trincomalee district.
The political group said more than 1,000 Tamils in the area had been killed and 6 refugees who attempted to return to the district, the statement said
HAIFA, Israel: Police seized $850,000 worth of heroin and arrested two Israelis and one Lebanese, a Galilee police spokesman said today.
The spokesman said the seizure late Thursday represented the largest single cache of heroin ever taken in Israel.
Police alleged the suspects distributed the equivalent of 6,000 doses of heroin inside the Tel Aviv. Area,
The Galilee police chief refused to give further details but said that earlier this week officers also seized a large, unspecified amount of hashish smuggled from Lebanon.
TOKYO: Japan Air Lines Chairman Nihachiro today submitted his resignation, becoming the last of the airlines top executives to step down after the crash of one of its jets in history’s worse plane accident. Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone approved Hanamur as resignation from the air line, partly owned by the government. Under Nakasones orders, JAL carried out a top level management reshuffle last year after one of its Boeing 747s on a domestic flight crashed into a remote mountain in central Japan, killing all but four of the 524 people aboard. Nakasone had blamed poor management labour relations as part of the reason of the crash. In the reshuffle last December, JAL president Yasumoto Takagi and Vice President Naoshi Machida were replaced.
Junji Ito, who was appointed as vice-chairman in the reshuffle, will take over Hanamuras position.
VERSAILLES, K.y.:Queen Elizabeth the Second, an avoid horsewoman who nineteen months ag0 arranged a breeding of a royal broodmares to top American Sires, saw the first foal Friday and affectionately patted the filly’s nose.
WASHINGTON: — three nuclear powered attack submarines linked up and surfaced at the North Pole for the first time earlier this month on a historic mission that signaled a boosted US. Sub presence under the Arctic icepack, Navy officials said Friday.
TAIPEI, Taiwan: A jet hi-jacked to China would have crashed if two crewmen had refused to obey the defecting pilot, the pair said Friday hours after the plane was turned over to Taiwan officials in Hong Kong under a historical pact. The air-craft and two crewmen were flown to Hong Kong Friday after talks that led to this week’s signing of the first ever agreement between the two Chinas.
HANBURG, West Germany: Unclaimed packages with Arabic Writing on it caused a bomb scare Hamburg’s main train station.
All train traffic was halted for an hour Friday after the authorities said Saturday; the alarm was sounded when a reporter told police he had found a package at one of the tracks.
An explosives expert who rushed it to the station took apart the package and discovered pistachionut.
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