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office and a parcel containing sugar and tea Air Lanka on the mat A selection from Sri Lankan was delivered ... 'The deceased was cracking newspapers, without comment. jokes and pleasing the others. He kept the Sri Lanka's national carrier, Air Lanka, has Readers are requested to form their muzzle of the gun at his neck and demons- come under heavy fire from the country's own conclusions. trated to his mother how a person could shoot defence boss - General Sepala Attygalle - himself. He pulled the trigger with his leg. for the non-payment of their share of Katu- There was a explosion and the deceased fell nayake Airport's electricity bill. The former Political Astrology ! dead at the foot of his mother. Witness said Army chief who presently heads the Airport deceased had' forgotten that the gun was and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd., in his "A Star War will take place on January 8, loaded and cocked. annual report for the limited liability company 1986, in the house of parliamentary affairs. (The Island - 23/12/85) has stated that electricity bills to the tune This planetary war is between Mercury, the of Rs. 16.2 million rendered to Air Lanka, planet of communication and mass media vs. Ltd. and Air Lanka Catering Services Itd. have mysterious Neptune. The winner is Neptune Appeal for Red Cross not been paid ... Airport and Aviation Services the planet of "worry". It builds up fear from (Sri Lanka) Ltd. which was formed in March neighbours. Cordial relations between rulers Jaffna Citizens' Committee has requested 1983 has reported a nett loss of Rs. 35 million of neighbouring countries turn into dreadful President Jayawardene to permit a team of for the year ending March 31. 1985 ... situations. This could also be a period of observers from the International Red Cross (The Sun - 1 /l /86) stress adversely affecting the rule of law. to stay in the country not only as observers Resolutions of condemnation of rulers may but also to provide relief to the refugees. In Polls Speculation be discussed as internal dissensions grow. its memorandum signed by its Secfetary, Rac~alstress will adversely affect countfy's Attorney-at-law Mr. R. Balasubramaniam, the Political observers were positive yesterday peace. A politico may play a peculiar political Committee continued that Jaffna had now that Government would hold an election oka role this week. In this instance it suggests a become an area of refugees not being properly referendum within the next six monthc) great set-back for a trade union. It also creates looked after and non-government organisa- According to many observes, the likeliest fresh problems in the plantation and agricul- tions were compelled to go to their rescue, decision is a referendum at which the govern- - tural sector. Mercury's defeat may hit the looking after them whether they were in ment might put forward its own propbsals trading floors again. Expect a sharp drop in houses or camps. and those of the other political parties for the prices of tea, rubber and coconut ... Saturn (The Island - 4/1/86) the solution of the ethnic problems so that and Moon join on January 7 in the house of the people could decide. Asked by SUN, an royals and build up a very crucial and critical official of the Election Commissioner's Dept. week for a top leader ... Death of a famed Mrs. B's contention said it was ready for anything - Presidential person will also be in the news ..." election, a General Election. Development The main reason for the troubles in the North Council Elections or a Referendum. The WEEKEND SUN -.January 5.1986 - From is the fraud known as the Referendum which electoral lists of 1985 could be made available the astrological page run by Dr. Kingsley was held to postpone the general elections by next month (The Sun - 4/1/86) Goonetilleke and Professor Kheiro. .... by six years, Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike the leader of the SLFP said at her first public Horseracing again meeting after the restoration of her civic rights, 5-Star Theft I held in Gam~aha.Mr. A. Amirthalinaam who Horseracing - the "Royal game" and the won 14 seats at the Geberal ~lectionsin Left with only the clothes on his back, sport of "kings and beggars': - is likely to 1977 and became the Leader of the Opposition Jordanian tv1.tvl.Abu Dayyah will take back make a legitimate re-appearance in Sri Lanka in Parliament, has been rejected by the people with him bitter memories of a New Year's shortly. THE! government. yeekend learns. in the north. Continuing further, Mrs. Bandara- Day in a &star hotel in Colombo. Mr.Dayyah, has signified its apwva! and the Ceylon Turf naike pointed out that in the 1982 Referendum, the General Manager of an Omani recruitmev- Club is planning to bllild a rececourse at the symbol "Lamp" received only 25,000 votes agency had his caSh and valuables worLy Talduwa, 30 miles from Colombo The re- in Jaffna while the Opposition symbol the Rs.l44,250 stolen while he slept. Today the) introduction of horseracing IS expected to "Pot" received 250,000 votes in the area. man who came to recruit 343 Lankans for substantiallv boost aovernment- revenue ... She said people in the South as well as people jobs in West Asia is disillusioned and is having in the North and East g.ave the vote to the second thoughts about hiring Sri Lankans. ... (Weekend - 5/1/86). "Ppt" calling for a General Election... (The Sun - 4/1/86) Home Guard hero !. (The Island - 6/1/86) Fate of lndian boat A young Home Guard who was armed with a Jaffna High Court has no jurisdiction to gun died when he tried to show his mother Job in Interpol hold ayinquiry into the application for payment how a person could shoot himself This-was of compensation or value for any production disclosed at an inquest held into the death of Senior D.I.G. R. Sunderalingam now on a lost or damaged. State Counsel b1r.lyathurai W. Gamini Ratnayake (18) of Etabendlv~ewa police assignment with the German C.I.D. Gnanathasan made the above submission (Trincomalee district) by the Inquirer into (Bundes Kriminalant) has been selected for bofore the Jaffna High Court Judge b1r.TAnanda Sudden Deaths. Gomarankadawala, Mr. U.B. a senior posting at the Police division of Coomarrswamy during an inquiry into an Gunasekera. Mother of the deceased P. Interpol headquarters in France. Mr. Sundera- application by a crew of an lndian trawler for Dingirimenike (36),in evidence said deceased lingam was among several overseas applicants the payment of compensation for the loss of was her second child. On the day of the for this prestigious post. He is the first Sri the trawler while in the custody of the court. incident he left home at about 8 p.m. along Lankan and only the second Asian Police Attorney-at-law R.Balasubramaniam appeared with K. Dharmadasa. They went to a guard Officer to join the cadre of this internatlonal on behalf of the applicant Ganesan. Police point near their house. A little while later pollce organisation which was established in Constable Suppiah Parameswara of the Jaffna witness along with her elder daughter went 1913 and is manned by 50 hand-picked police Police in his evidence stated that during the towards the guard point hearing the approach officers drawn from 134 member countries. year 1984 he was attached to Kayts Police of a vehicle. It was a jeep from the A.G.A.'s (The Sun - 1 /l /86) Station. 'The lndian fishing trawler RN Ill Sri Lanka Situation Report Jan.l5,198 was handed over to Kayts Police on a directive naikepura model village, the Prime blinister worst is over. But I could be wrong", was his by the Jaffna High Court on 25/11 /84. The said that although the former Prime Minister reply to questions raised as to prevailing mood, Kayts Police Station was closed and on could not lay an egg she might at least cluck at the briefing to diplomats and international 25/12/84, Inspector of Police Gnanapiragasam when she saw the new houses ...( The Sun - agencies, held at the Defence Ministry head- who was in charge, was killed. He was aware 7/1/86) quarters. The Minister pointed out that his that the said Indian fishing trawler was a optimism was based on information covering production in the case - F g.... Fisheries U.S. Tea tests the terrorists campaign plans and situation Inspector. Kayts, S.Velupillai in his report reports... (The lsland - 7/1/86) had said the upper portion of the trawler was The U.S Food and Drug Administration burned and the lower part was submerged in has moved to detain Sri Lanka's Tea imports No night work water. Further Inquiry was put off (The lsland for special testing following terrorist threats - 31 /l 2/85) to contaminate that nation's tea with cyanide, The minor employees and counter clerks of the Jaffna Post Office have unanimously states a report datelined Weshington in protested to the Chief Post Master that they Home Guard guns yesterday's issue of the "Wall Street Journal". I cannot risk their lives by doing night work The report says that Sri Lanka provides about I (The lsland 7/1/86) b1r.A.E. de Alwis. A.S.P., bladawachchiya 10 per cent of US tea imports or about 21 - said yesterday that 18 shot guns in the million pounds of black tea annually ..
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