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Press, 18 March 1988, Page 8

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20 rebels killed ' Indian soldiers killed 20 Tamil (guerrillas in raids >n northern Sri Lanka and captured a separatist rebel leader. The killings wrought to 34 the known deaih [toll in violence on Tuesday in the Indian Ocehn! island.—Colombo. Tartars can move A Soviet commission set up to study ithe (grievances of deported Crimean Tartars seeking to} return frojn Central Asia to their Black} Sea homeland has decided to allow approved candidates to go.i according} to an Uzbekistan newspaper.} "Pravda Vostoka." It ’was the first official indication since the} commission was set upjinjJuly last year, after hundreds of- Tartars demclnsirated* in Moscow's Red 'Square, that Soviet authorities } had ' given grbund on the Tartars’ main (demand. — Moscow.

Black bishop A black has been appointed a Roman Catholic archbishop for the first time in the United States. Eugene Marino, aged 53, auxiliary bishop of Washington, will head the arch Robber eats \'gun> A man tried to robj a cafe but lost his nerve and ate, his gun. It was made of nougat. Customers who saw the attempted holdup said the man appeared to be drunk. i —Montpellier, France. Buffalo Bill : s Queensland restaurants have been given the permission to offer buffalo meat on their menus under legislation passed in the state Parliament. Amendments to the Meat Industry Act will allow the sale of buffalo meat for human consumption in Queensland. —Brisbane.