P161 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                               * 4 December - Sri Lankan Civil War:  Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107-150  civilians in Mannar.  * 4 December - Hezbollah militants  hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and  kill 4 passengers.  * 10 December - Richard Stone wins the  Nobel Prize in Economics "for having  made fundamental contributions to the  development of systems of national  accounts and hence greatly improved  the basis for empirical economic  analysis".     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End