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...Ceylon's 10,600,000 people expect a good show during their national elections, and the proceedings often resemble a carnival as much as a contest. The biggest crowds last week gathered to hear the top rivals: Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, 48, the world's only woman Prime Minister, and bachelor Dudley Senanayake, 53, whose conservative United National Party was supported by breakaway members of Madame's Freedom Party...
...jampacked rally at Kalutara, south of the capital city of Colombo, greying, bespectacled Senanayake wore a green shirt (his party color) and gripped an elephant tusk (the elephant is his party emblem). He cried, "We must beat this government. If it continues, it will spell disaster for Ceylon!" Another antigovernment candidate derided the "socalled golden brains" of Madame Bandaranaike's Marxist Cabinet members and said they were "full of cow dung...
Cheer Leader. The opposition hammered away at Madame's links with Red China. Senanayake charged that the recently signed maritime pact with Peking would allow Red China to use the port of Trincomalee, thus making Ceylon a base for the Communist struggle to control India. Anti-Chinese feelings were so strong that a crowd mistakenly mauled two Japanese newsmen and stole their watches and cameras...
Antagonized Monks. Madame's magic was not sufficient last week to over come 41 years of misrule, corruption and wholesale nationalization that has crippled Ceylon's once-flourishing economy based on tea, rubber and coconut. She had also antagonized the numerous and influential Buddhist monks, whose saffron-robed leaders were conspicuous on Senanayake's election platforms...
...Menlo Park, Calif., is rapturous over discovering the Orient and swimming with new-found Egyptian friends in the Nile. "I skied in Japan, saw the bullfights in Spain, and went Honda riding in Greece," recalls Janice Cope, 22, of Fresno, Calif. Manila offered the students a cockfight, Ceylon a performance by the Kandyan dancers. The semester trip, plus 17 course credits, cost $2,500 to $3,000, depending on accommodations...