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www.tamilarangam.netINTERNATIONAL BRIEFSNEW DELHI:Indian President Zail Singhis expected to pay a visit to Mauritius inOctober-on the occasion of the 150thanniversary celebration of the arrival ofthe first batch of Indian immigrants to theisland as indentured labourers to workon sugarcane plantations. Mauritius is theonly country outside-India where peopleof Indian origin are in a majority and alsoin power, while everywhere else, includingFiji and Guyana it is not so despite thepredominance of Indian settlers there.LONDON: The wife of the South AfricanPrime Minister Mr. Pieter Botha — whoseGovernment imposes racial segregationon blacks and Indians — retrieved a lost$80,000 engagement ring due to thehonesty of two Indian cleaning women.Mrs. Botha had lost the ring made in goldand set with diamonds while accompanyingher husband on a tour of Europe.The two women, both from Punjab, foundthe ring wedged between two seats ofMr. Botha's official plane while they werecleaning it in London on June 2.COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka NationalSecurity Minister Lalith Athulathmudalisaid here on July 9 that the governmenthad uncovered a terrorist plan aimed at arepetition of last year's incidents thismonth. The bomb attack a few days earlierin Jaffna and placing of a time bomb in, the building where his office was locatedwere part of the terrorist plan, he said.SINGAPORE: Singapore has launched acampaign in hospitals and among pregnantwomen to promote bilingualism inchildren. Pamphlets are being distributedurging each parent to speak a .differentlanguage to their child to help him or heracquire two languages before startingschool. The Education Ministry whichissued the pamphlets seeks to allay anyfear that speaking two languages to achild will create confusion. "If you andyour spouse each speak one language toyour child consistently, the child, aftersome time, Will be able to use two languageswithout mixing them". It adds thatbillingual children score significantlybetter in intelligence tests-than childrenwho know only one language.COLOMBO: The safe of the Kilinochchibrnach of the Bank of Ceylon was robbedduring the early hours of 2nd July,according to a censored report in theColombo newspaper, "The Island" of 3rdJuly. The report said robbers had removedthe safe in an ambulance to an unknowndestination. The ambulance had beenfound later, abandoned in a desolate spot.18MADRAS: The Madras-based Organisationfor a Protection of Human Rightsin Sri Lanka is thinking of setting up atribunal to enquire into the happeningsin the island during the past two years,with special reference to the events ofJuly 1983. Disclosing this to newsmenhere the Organisation's president,Mr. V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Judge ofthe Supreme Court, said the tribunalwould have three to five members —outstanding public figures from India andabroad, to be selected soon. The tribunalwould gather evidence from the victims,if the Sri Lanka Government gave permission,or else, meet the refugees inIndia and other countries.NEW YORK:Indian M.P. Dr. Karan Singh,has made an appeal to Hindus in theworld to spearhead a new spiritual movementto enable mankind to survive intothe next century. In a keynote address tothe 10th Hindu conference organised bythe Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America,he said Hinduism must respond to thecrisis facing the human race today "Wemay be the last generation to live on thisplanet, and, therefore, we accept thischallenge", he said. The two-day conference,with its theme of" Hindu thoughtand world harmony" has attracted 3,000delegates. .MOSCOW: A new English and Russianedition of the well known book "Tamilgrammer" by Dr. M.S. Andronov will soonbe published. The English edition willcome out in India while the Russianedition from Moscow almost at the sametime, reports APN. The book, first publishedby the Nauka Publishers of Moscowin 1966, got immediate recognition fromthe leading Dravidologists of India, Europeand America, An English version of itwas published in 1969 in India. The booksoon bagged the first prize of the TamilnadGovernment in the competition of bookson Tamil language and literature, APNsaid. In his book Dr. Andronov offers avery clear grammatical system.MADRAS: The golden jubilee celebrationsof Besant Theosophical HighSchool were inaugurated by EducationMinister C. Aranganayagam recently. Theminister paid great tributes to Dr. RukminiArundale who had taken over full chargeof the School after Dr. Annie Besant andDr. Arundale. B. Sivanthi Adityan,Chairman of the Celebrations Committeewelcomed the gathering. He said that abuilding at a cost of Rs. 5 lakh was underconstruction in connection with theCentenary of Dr. Arundale.LONDON: A Mauritian Tamil MahaSangam is to be formed in London togather all Tamil Mauritians in the UnitedKingdom under one body. A preliminarymeeting is to be held in early summer.All interested Mauritian Tamilians areinvited to contact: K. Krishna Pillay, 74,Ranelagh Road, TOTTENHAM. LondonN 17. The Sangam will be inauguratedon the occasion of the Mariamen CanjeePoosai to be held on Sunday, August 26th1984 at 1.00 p.m. at the Highgate Hill,Murugan Temple, 200A, Archway Road,Highgate Hille, London N6.JAFFNA: The UK government has giftedthe Jaffna Civil Hospital with a generatorfor use in the hospital. The gift was madethrough the good offices of the BritishHigh Commissioner in Sri Lanka. Hitherto,the hospital was using a less powerfulsmall-sized generator to supply electricityto the Operating Theatre and the IntensiveCare Unit, the British generator it Isunderstood could provide electricity tothe entire hospital and ensure an uninterruptedwater supply even in the eventof a power-cut.KANDY: A large number of forgedcurrency notes of the 500-rupee deno*mination has been detected by the Kandypolice, in addition to the detection madeof 1000-rupee forged notes recently inthe Kandy area, according to CID sources.Three persons have been taken intocustody by the CID following the detectionof the 500-rupee notes. The CID believethat the forged notes have been printedabroad as these notes even bear thewatermarks and the security thread whichcould not have been printed locally. CIDsources said that millions of rupees inforged currency were circulating invarious parts of the country. Police havealso cautioned all banks and businessinstitutions to be on the alert.COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Governmentnas claimed to have arrested six suspectswho were allegedly transporting a consignmentof explosives in a boat in theNorthern Security Zone. The suspects inthis case are Shaul Hameed, MohamedMousoon, S. Ariyaratnam, K. llamaragam,K. Vishvaratnam from KKS, Chunnakam,and Kopay, The sixth suspects theyclaimed, isaii Indian national named VaithiyalingamRamamoorthi. The ColomboMagistrate Mr. S.I. Imam was told thatthe suspects on detection had attemptedto throw the explosives into the Ocean..The consignment they said consisted of1763 sticks of dynamite and 23 kilogrammesof wire used for detonatingjkpo;j; Njrpa Mtzr; Rtbfs;