Vol. 31 No. 9 ISSN: 1391 - 0531

4th August 1996

Scaling great hights:interviews for women police constables were held this week at the Police Park, Bambalapitiya this week. Two police officers are seen here measuring the height of a young woman who wants to join the police. pic by Gemunu Wellage.

• Front Page News
  * Political parties split on ban-LTTE call * Lanka beefing up laws on mad cow * Soldier families in desperate search for news * Politico bullies booze-busters * Diyawadana Nilame to be removed? * SAARC police to check LTTE

• News/Comment
  * Bomb victims collect belongings * Kudu buns for breakfast * Chanaka's last lines: 'Something dreadful is working ..... will I be spared?' * Abuse of power by the CEB * Hard-ball politics puzzles marketing man * Killer vehicle set on fire * Where does the waste paper go? * Surveyors warn Govt. * Clash in Batticaloa * Four die: 24 down with dengue * Internet:a threat say scientists * Another medical crisis brewing * Cell lunch for Satana editor * Devolution talks with UNP * An inimitable innings * Fowzie furious over saline fiasco * Supreme Court rules for Cornel * Manik heads Editors' Guild * Stay on plea to Anura * Open University honours two educationists * MIRJE condemns train blast * Who should apologize to whom? * America's Black July * Milking the consumer and farmer

• Editorial / Opinion
  • Editorial - Who's demoralising the forces?
  • The Situation Report - Oh the censors, oh the morals!
  • The Military Column - LTTE faces world anti-terror clamp-down
  • The Fifth Column - The Gold Medal for terrorism
  • Taraki's Column - Nine years on, nothing to show
  • Rajpal's Column - Armour Street: it's all about living
  • The Guest Column - They did it their way
  • The Jungle Telegraph

• Business News
  * Banish wait-and-see policy and act, says Vanik boss * Mind Your Business * Liberalisation: pros and cons * Subsidy removal:target the rich * Hambantota saltmen express monopoly fears * Time for long-term investment * Top fund manager optimistic of Lanka's economic growth * UN report warns of "inhuman" disparities

• Plus
  * A burning need of the hour * Truly a man of letters - to the Editor * Abroad, astray * Woolf as Judge: understanding contradictions in British justice * Meaning before money * LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Sports News
  * Blackmail! * Kandy crush OTSC 47/3 * Madugalle vows tough action against misbehaviour * Half-Marathon at Kalutara * Police thrashed by Red Shirts 44-nil

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