Courtesy - DM - by Ranga Kalansooriya
It was somewhere in March 1997, we returned to the newsroom and were struggling with the copy to meet the deadline for the first edition.
It was somewhere in March 1997, we returned to the newsroom and were struggling with the copy to meet the deadline for the first edition.
President Yasir Arafat had just addressed hundreds of local and international journalists at Taj Samudra Hotel after completing his state visit to Sri Lanka. Saba covered it for Daily News and I, for Dinamina.
“Ranga, have a look and tell me what you think of this intro,” Saba shouted from his desk. I rushed to him and the white newsprint papers were still stuck into his old manual typewriter. I carefully read his powerful intro.
“No… No… never... never,” was the response of President Yasir Arafat when he was asked whether he sees any similarity between PLO and LTTE,” read his intro (if I remember the exact words correctly).
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