Limits of the news
A telling episode recalled by harassed
journalists is of an American reporter covering the forced
withdrawal of Belgium from the then Belgian Congo. Upon landing at
Lusaka Airport, he saw a group of white women waiting to be
evacuated and rushed over to them with the classic question: “Has
anyone here been raped, and speaks English?”
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The great debate on the solution
Since the LTTE has no de-jure political power to
Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts the Government of Sri Lanka has
the right to over power the LTTE by its forces and regain the
de-facto political power too in these two districts. It is not
possible for the Government to give a ‘political solution’ to these
two districts before it restores its writ, because the Government
cannot possibly give what it doesn’t have.
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The irresistible exuberance of Benazir Bhutto
BENAZIR BHUTTO came up to Oxford in October
1973, at the beginning of the Michaelmas term of that academic year.
She was initially expected to stay just two years, as she already
had a degree from Harvard and was therefore exempt from the first
year Preliminary Exam for a degree in Philosophy, Politics and
Economics.
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