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	Sunday 04th April 1999   Vol. 1 No. 96

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Politicians ignore 'Return Weapons' call The government's failure to collect thousands of weapons issued to political parties during the JVP's abortive bid to seize power in late 80s, threatens next Tuesday's Provincial Council poll in five provinces. The Election Monitoring Committee [EMC] chaired by President Chandrika Kumaratunga on March 25 renewed attempts to recover weapons before Tuesday. "Not a single weapon has been returned," one source said yesterday adding that the EMC, represented by 12 political parties requested the return of all weapons to police stations before the elections day.

Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake busy at his Rajagiriya office as he prepares to face the challenging task of conducting elections to five provincial councils on Tuesday (pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja)

• Greenlight for cops to open fire on armed gangs
• Poster busting cost a million
• Wayamba was the worst, admits elections chief
  Secret plans to counter malpractices
• Vasu to sit with opposition?
• G. C. Wickremasinghe kidnapping: Was he the first one?
• Monitors undeterred by threats & intimidation
• For better supervision of funding, plans, expenditure
  All NGOs to be registered under one authority
• Ten years experience necessary to be a principal, says Appeal Court
• Senior journalist, husband harassed by two cops
• Kandalama hosts handicapped children
• GST a success, says Inland Revenue
• Row over delivery of Telecom directories
• CMEV refutes D. M. Jayaratne's charges
• Two policemen beheaded
• Swimming pool re-opened at Mayfield Lane
• Avurudu Pola to help Chitra Lane school
• Solutions are what's needed, not fault finding says Ranil
• Ven. Dr. Madagama Vajiragnana felicitated at London Buddhist vihara
• K. H. J. Wijayadasa speaks to retired public servants
  What you must do in the face of electoral fiddles

• Army changes tack in move which foxes Tigers

• Review
  'A remarkable woman politician'
• Life-giving Madhu Church raises peace hopes
• People and Events
  Briton of the millenium
• To teacher with gratitude
• Were whales dynamited for ambergris?
• The Prince of Glory
• A vision for an integrated development of the built environment for the 21st century-Sri Lanka
• Letters
  

• Violence and democracy
• NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia
  A slap in the face of the UN Security Council?
• L E G A L W A T C H
  Acid test for electoral democracy
• April 6 - judgement day on Wayamba violence - Karu
  The UNP's candidate for Chief Minister of the Western Province, Colombo's Mayor Karu Jayasuriya, says the country is sick of the misdeeds of the past, and wants a new political culture which will deal with the needs of the future.
• The week that was
  Board of cricket control elections
  Is cricket in Sri Lanka getting politicised?
• The high-powered monitoring bluff
• 'I worked against JR'
• Unethical election ads of certain lawyers

• Filthy magazines ruin morals while minting money
  Sex, sadism and seduction
• New trends in fashion
  Flashy fluorecents are in. Whether in make-up, cars or plain clothes. As international trends control our tastes and choices , the Sri Lankans are steadily reaching for yellow nailpolish, electric blue lipstick and metallic green cars...
• Chef Instructor from Hawaii at the Hilton
• High Fashion
  Saree elbows out western styles
• Violence against women

• Ananda fancied to retain Dr. N. M. Perera trophy
• COMMENT
  Hit wicket!
• Hajireen stars for St. Sylvester's
• St. Thomas' Kotte the winners
• Ladies golf at Victoria
• A proposal to prevent the politicisation of SL cricket
• Jayasuriya a blazing 90
• World Cup '99 Panel of Umpires and Referees
• Moratuwa SC President says his residence was attacked
• Lankan contribution to origin of limited-overs cricket
• The creator and destroyer of cricket
• BRC defy odds at C Beach Rugby finals
• Sumith Prasanna dreams of ring glory at Sydney 2000 Olympics

• NTB allotments made but taxman non-committal
• Rental income erases Collettes trading losses
• Bad debt provisions hurt LB Finance
• The Banana War
• Bank employees' demands unreasonable
• Australian management school lauds Watawala
• Purchase agreement for six factories signed
  Deal with big British retailer helps Tri Star restructure

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