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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 01, 1998

Page

6

Sri Lankan forces claim major prize in highway battle

Sri Lanka’s military says it seized Mankulam along a highway from Colombo toward Jaffna after a brutal week of fighting that killed as many as 1300 troops and Tamil rebels. Reinforcements and counterclaims continue amid government censorship and missing details.

New Delhi India Sri Lanka Colombo Jaffna Red Cross Harsha Gunawardene Gunawardene Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Mallavi Kilinochchi Associated Press Mankulam National Hospital

Grenades injure 22 in Hebron amid West Bank tension

In Hebron, an assailant hurled two grenades at Israeli troops in a busy square injuring 11 soldiers and 11 Palestinians. The attacker was shot in the leg and fled into Palestinian areas as Israeli forces imposed a curfew and set roadblocks around the 130,000 resident city.

Hebron West Bank U.S United States Palestinian Authority Benjamin Netanyahu Israel TV Channel Two Hamas Gaza Strip Israel Clinton Netanyahu Yasser Arafat Hassan Abdel Rahman Washington Madeleine Albright Dennis Ross

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