The World - News from Aug. 8, 1989
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India withdrew 875 more soldiers from Sri Lanka as President Ranasinghe Premadasa called a special Cabinet meeting to discuss negotiations for the withdrawal of all 45,000 Indian peacekeepers in the island nation. The two countries have been at loggerheads since Premadasa demanded that India withdraw troops dispatched two years ago to enforce an Indian-brokered peace accord to end a six-year insurgency by separatist Tamils fighting in northeast Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the State Department expanded its notice to U.S. travelers in Sri Lanka to include the entire country, warning that there is a widespread potential for violence.
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