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March 18, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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68 Maoists
killed in Nepal training camp Pak army
chief ‘paid 10 cr’ for Khaleda’s win Imran
backs Musharraf
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LTTE
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, right, takes the oath administered by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku during his inauguration at State House in Harare, Zimbabwe,
on Sunday. — AP/PTI photo
Nixon
kin feud over library Coolant
for fighter pilots!
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68 Maoists killed in Nepal training camp Kathmandu, March 17 Army and police personnel this morning attacked a training camp of the rebels at Kabara-Gunsal in Rolpa district in mid-western Nepal, considered a stronghold of Maoists. At least three armed rebels each were killed in Kanchanpur and Baglung district of western Nepal yesterday, the statement added. There was no casualty among the security forces, which seized weapons, ammunition and explosives from the rebels and disposed bombs kept in various parts of the country. Minister of State for Home Devendra Raj Kandel said a large number of Maoists were injured in the search-and-destroy operations of the security forces. To crush the insurgency operations by the Maoists, the Nepalese government has mobilised the army since the declaration of a state of emergency in the country in November last year after the rebels broke a four-month-long ceasefire talks with the government. More than 800 people, including over 600 Maoists, have been killed since the state of emergency was imposed. Over 3,000 people, including Maoists, security personnel and civilians, have been killed since the rebels launched insurgency in 1996 to establish a Communist republic in the world’s only Hindu nation.
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Pak army chief ‘paid 10 cr’ for Khaleda’s win
Islamabad, March 17 “One army chief of Pakistan actually bribed his Bangladeshi counterpart with Rs 10 crore to bring Ms Khaleda Zia to power and help revive Jamaat-e-Islami,” The Friday Times has reported in its latest issue, without naming the military officer. Stating that the Indian media was now writing about the “many strongholds of the ISI in Dhaka under the benign regard of the Bangladesh army and Ms Zia’s party”, the weekly said, “So strong is the swing of the pendulum in favour of Islam that the secularists have been thrown back on the defensive”. The weekly said Pakistan countered the alleged Indian “penetration” of Bangladesh “especially after India tried to outflank it in Afghanistan by moving closer to the Rabbani government.” The journal said former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was “convinced that the ISI was behind the two attempts on her life made in Dhaka”. “Her (Hasina’s) government had objected to Pakistan giving Prime Minister’s protocol to Ms Khaleda Zia when she made a private visit to Pakistan as the leader of Opposition”. It said the skirmish between Indian and Bangladeshi border guards last year “indicated the persisting right-wing orientation of the Bangladesh army (pro-Khaleda Zia) and resulted in the increase in the anti-India fervour among the Bangladeshis”. “It was expected that after the incident, Ms Hasina Wajed would lose the elections, which she did,” the weekly said.
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Imran backs Musharraf
Dubai, March 17 In an interview to Gulf News, he said the General should continue as President even after elections. ‘’I think General Musharraf should continue as President of the country for the sake of stability,’’ he said, adding that his party would back General Musharraf if he came to power after the elections. He supported the proposed change to restore the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, giving powers to the President to dissolve elected govt assemblies.
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No talks till Israelis retreat
Ramallah, March 17 “There will be no discussions on a ceasefire before an Israeli retreat from all of area A,” Erakat told Voice of Palestine radio. Area A represents territory under full Palestinian security and administrative control, ceded by the Israelis under peace agreements since 1993. Erakat also called for international observers to be deployed to oversee the implementation of any ceasefire. He said Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority had raised the request for observers with US envoy Anthony Zinni. The timing of a meeting to hammer out a ceasefire has yet to be agreed to, according to sources from both sides. Zinni’s mission is his third bid in the past four months to restore peace, launched this time with Washington stepping up the pressure on Israel to halt hostilities. JERUSALEM: A suspected Palestinian gunman today opened fire in the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba, killing a woman and wounding 15 people before police shot him dead, police and medical officials said. They said the shooting took place shortly after midday at a central junction in Kfar Saba, about 3 km from the Palestinian-ruled West Bank city of Qalqilya and 20 km north of Tel Aviv. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the first inside Israel since U.S. West Asia envoy Anthony Zinni arrived on Thursday for a mission aimed at halting Israeli-Palestinian violence. Israel Radio said police were searching the area for another possible gunman. RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah has accepted an invitation from U.S. President George W. Bush to visit Washington, nine months after the kingdom’s de facto ruler snubbed a similar invitation over perceived U.S. pro-Israel bias. The official Saudi Press Agency today said the invitation was delivered by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, who met Prince Abdullah yesterday to discuss a Saudi peace plan for the West Asia that had been welcomed by Washington.
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LTTE invites Amnesty Colombo, March 17 The Sunday Leader said the LTTE chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was concerned about allegations that the rebels were violating a truce with the Colombo Government. The Tigers’ political adviser, Anton Balasingham, told the newspaper that Prabhakaran was worried about “child-conscription, extortion and abduction and wants to take action if any LTTE member is found guilty”. Balasingham, however, said the LTTE leader was taking the charges seriously. “Although there is scepticism about his intentions and misgivings in the media, Prabhakaran is keen to ensure the success of the peace process,” Balasingham said. “He has sent a directive to all regional and area leaders and commanders that if anyone is found guilty of ceasefire offences,
severe action would be taken against them.” Last week the USA had issued an unprecedented rebuke to the group against “jeopardising” the truce. The U.S. said it had credible reports that the Tigers were continuing to engage in gun-running and abduction, besides terrorising Muslims in the east.
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Mugabe sworn in as President Harare, March 17 Chief Justice Godfrey
Chidyausiku, administered the oath of office, to cheers and adulations from the audience. A 21-gun salute rose up as the national anthem was played. Presidents Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, Mr Bakili Muluzi of Malawi, Mr Sam Nujoma of Namibia and Mr Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique attended the swearing-in ceremony, as did officials from Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front
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‘Most-wanted’ Al-Qaida man held
London, March 17 Citing unnamed US Intelligence sources, the newspaper said Abu Anas Al-Liby, described as a senior militant from Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network, was being held at a high-security prison in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Abu Anas was accused of plotting the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 persons and injured more than 4,000, according to the report. “He is one of nine militants seized in Khartoum and now being handed over to US authorities,” the Sunday Times quoted a source close to the CIA as saying. The newspaper said in the days after the September 11 attacks on the USA, between 30 and 40 Al-Qaeda members were secretly rounded up in Sudan and flown to Egypt. A further 10 were arrested last month, including Abu Anas. The suspect lived in Manchester, northern England, before fleeing Britain two years ago as an arrest warrant was issued for him by the USA, the paper said. The British police tracked him down to his home in May 2000, but he had left by the time they raided it, the Sunday Times said. Among possessions found at his flat was a manual entitled “Military studies in the jehad against tyrants”, the paper said. A Scotland Yard spokesman in London declined to comment on the story.
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Nixon kin feud over library New York, March 17 But now, eight years after his death, his two daughters are locked in a bitter and vengeful struggle over his legacy that is set to be played out in the US courts. There is complete estrangement between the sisters,’ a director of the Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda, California, told the Los Angeles Times. Until he died in 1994, the library was run by Nixon himself. After his death, the sisters disagreed on whether it should be run by members of the family, as Tricia Nixon Cox believed, or by an independent board of directors, as Julie Nixon Eisenhower held. Eisenhower’s vision prevailed, and for the past eight years the library and its substantial assets have been operated by a 24-member board. However, a legacy of about $ 12 million from Nixon friend and Florida property millionaire Charles ‘Bebe’ Rebozo has given the library the opportunity to challenge the arrangement. Under the terms of the bequest, Rebozo left the money to the Nixon Library on the condition that all spending should be approved by Nixon’s daughters and another long-time Nixon friend, Robert Abplanalp. In a court action begun earlier this year, the Nixon Foundation is seeking to remove Cox from the triumvirate and place the money under the direct control of the museum.
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Coolant
for fighter pilots!
Washington, March 17 In future, so the researchers believe, this will also benefit those operating in hot working environments wearing protective clothes like race car drivers, firefighters and hazardous materials workers. At the core is the high thermal conductivity graphite foam, an ORNL material that boasts thermal conductivity five times greater than aluminum. James Klett of ORNL's Metals and Ceramics Division envisions that the system will provide chilled air to circulate within the suit and helmet of a fighter pilot. According to Klett, the proposed system will enhance the performance of a person's natural cooling mechanisms. He led the team which developed the foam. He further claims that "instead of simply cooling the skin through a uniform, our approach will remove heat from the body surface and provide cooled air to breathe." In the pilots' case as also of the others engaged in perilous jobs, "the heat can substantially degrade a person's effectiveness," Klett said. "And we are working with the racing industry to develop a system geared toward drivers' needs."
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Minnelli
ties knot for fourth time New York, March 17 Taylor and actress Marisa Berenson stood as maids of honor and Jackson and his brother Tito, childhood friends of Gest, were the best men.
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