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- <text id=93TT1669>
- <title>
- May 10, 1993: Day of the Assassin
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 23
- Day of the Assassin
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> A bomber kills Sri Lanka's President Premadasa at a May
- Day parade
- </p>
- <p> The way his opponents tell it, Ranasinghe Premadasa had
- some mental quirks. After his election as President in 1988, he
- increasingly likened himself to Sri Lanka's miracle-working
- Buddhist kings of old. Until recently, he also avoided overseas
- travel, reputedly after astrologers warned of his death should
- he leave the island. The precaution was in vain. Last Saturday,
- while officiating at a festive May Day parade in Colombo, the
- 68-year-old President of low-caste birth was blown to bits by
- a suicidal assassin laden with explosives. At least 15
- bystanders were also killed in this latest outbreak of political
- violence that has convulsed India's once placid offshore
- neighbor with insurgency and separatist warfare over the past
- decade. In Sri Lanka, curses today have a way of coming home.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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