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.World View International Sri Lankans stayed COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — At least 15 people have been killed this week by police en forcing a curfew in a southern district, authorities said today. Officers at the military com mand said five people were killed Monday in the town of Gandara. in the Matara district, when Sinhalese demonstrators attacked a police station during a strike to protest the govern ment's attempts to win over Tamil rebels. An indefinite curfew was im posed in the Sinhalese-domi nated district after the incident. and police were ordered to shoot violators. At least 10 people, including two women, were killed and 36 others injured when police fired at demonstrators defying the orders, said the officers, who cannot be identified under briefing rules. Monday's strike was called by the People’s Liberation Front, a radical Sinhalese group, which has opposed the July 1987 peace accord aimed at ending the 5-year-old war by Tamil militants. 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Gucci was one of the pio neers of the international Ital ian fashion boom, combining centuries-old Florentine artisanship with modern snob appeal. Save the Amazon BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — President Jose Sarney on Wed nesday unveiled a plan aimed mainly at stopping massive, uncontrolled burning in the Amazon jungle by farmers and ranchers which has aggravated the worldwide "greenhouse ef fect . ’' The program, called "Our Nature,” calls for a temporary end to government tax and fi nancing benefits for large-scale cattle ranching in the northern Amazon and a ban on exports of unprocessed tropical timber. Environmentalists have charged that the clearing of vast Amazon tracts by the prim itive slash-and-burn method has released hundreds of tons of noxious gases into the at mosphere. They say this causes the greenhouse effect, the gradual warming of the Earth’s atmos phere by a concentration of pol lutants that act like a blanket, trapping the sun’s warmth. Brazil’s government-run Space Research Institute said about 77,000 square miles of land were cleared by the slash and-burn method in 1987 and forecast a similar amount for this year. "We must create nationwide consciousness that we are all passengers in the adventure of Man on Earth,” Sarney said in a ceremony announcing the program. "The era of unlimited natural resources is over." The “Our Nature" program also contains a recommenda tion to Brazil's Congress to cut mercury imports. Free-lance gold prospectors throughout the Amazon use the highly tox ic element to separate gold from river silt and then throw the waste into the water. National Get-out-the-vote WASHINGTON (AP) - Lead ers of black organizations an nounced a get-out-the-vote campaign Wednesday aimed at urging blacks to "slam the door” on Reagan administra tion policies that they believe have hurt minorities. The campaign is expected to center on at least 15 states and 44 cities, said Walter Fauntroy, Democrat, the non-voting dele gate to the House from the Dis trict of Columbia. "We need to vote now as never before,” Fauntroy told a news conference. Although many of the black leaders' activities will be non partisan. the group has re ceived $50,000 from the Demo cratic National Committee and includes members from former Democratic presidential candi date Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition, Fauntroy said. If black voters cannot get ex cited about voting for Demo cratic nominee Michael Dukak is, "let's get angry about what policies have been implement ed" by the Reagan administra tion in the past eight years, Fauntroy said. Blacks must vote "if for no other reason than to slam the door on eight years of Reagan Bush policies that would be continued by a Bush-Quayle Reagan administration," Faunt roy said, Martin Luther King III said church leaders would be in volved in local efforts to back up the black leaders’ lour, which is expected to begin Fri day in Baltimore and end Nov. 7 in San Diego, Calif. Possible health pact WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the Soviet Union, adding a new dimen sion to their more cooperative relationship, plan to sign an agreement on Thursday speci fying areas in which medical experts from the two countries will undertake joint research. Valentin Pokrovsky, presi dent of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, said at a nows conference Wednesday night the agreement will for malize cooperation in combat ting acquired immune deficien cy syndrome, the aftereffects of nuclear radiation exposure, drug abuse, alcoholism and po lio. The agreement will be signed between the academy he heads and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he said. Speaking through a transla tor, Pokrovsky said, ‘‘Certainly the last summit and the general political atmosphere have con tributed to closer cooperation.” Me wore a lapel pin displaying the Soviet and American flags. Me said AIDS and nuclear ra diation were two logical areas for cooperative research efforts between the two countries. Because of the existence of nuclear power plants in the United States, Pokrovsky said American experts are particu larly interested in learning about the Soviet experience fol lowing the disaster at the Cher nobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986. Dozens of persons are reported to have died in that accident. Russians send team BALTIMORE |AP) — The first baseball team from the So viet Union to visit the United States may not have defensive whizzes or offensive sluggers. But there's no question about its eagerness. The team interrupted its first sight-seeing tour of the nation's capital to watch the ma* jorleague playoffs. "They didn’t want to be rude, hut the older players wanted to watch the game (Game 4 between the Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox)," said Rick Spooner, an American who serves as the coach of the Soviet team. The opportunities this week to watch the playoffs has been a big part of the trip for a team playing a game that is oidy 1 'U years old in the Soviet Union. "Constantly we’re trying to watch," said Andrei Borodin, the team's coach and first base man. "If there’s any possibil ity, we stay in front of the game all the time." The Soviet team, which hails from the Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Technology, played the first U.S.-Soviet baseball game in the United States on Wednesday against a Johns Hopkins University squad. The Soviets lost, 16-0. They committed 11 errors. 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