The World - News from June 21, 1987

Sri Lankan security forces resumed air attacks against Tamil separatist positions in the northern Jaffna Peninsula, ending a 10-day lull in the civil war. A government spokesman said warplanes, responding to rebel mortar attacks on a government-held Jaffna fort, struck a plant suspected of making mortars and a base from which the mortar attacks were made. Jaffna is a stronghold of Tamil militants fighting for a separate Tamil homeland in the northern and eastern sections of the island nation.