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...days of the 1960s, international health authorities thought they had it licked. The enervating fevers, the trembling chills, the splitting headaches and the appalling child-mortality rates were on their way out. Malaria, exulted the World Health Organization in Geneva, was defeated in Europe, banished from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and on the run in India and Pakistan, thanks to the effectiveness of drugs and insecticides. Even in Africa, it stood to go the way of smallpox. They could not have been more wrong. Today more than half the world's people live under the threat of malaria...
...Iowa, whose Feb. 20 caucuses will pose the first test, the question is apparently not whether Mondale will win but by how much. With 22 paid staffers, Mondale's machine is capitalizing on his regional popularity (he was born just seven miles across the state line in Ceylon, Minn.). By contrast, says an Iowa party leader, "the Glenn campaign has been a disaster. If his organization doesn't pick up the slack, he's going to be sucking eggs out here." Mondale's organization in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary...
DIED. Humphrey Waldock, 77, British president of the United Nations International Court of Justice; of a heart attack; in The Hague. A former Oxford professor and president of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Ceylon-born Waldock presided over the U.N. court's May 1980 decision calling for the release of the U.S. hostages from Iran...
That freedom could be savored for only a moment. After a journey to meet with Asian mystics in India and Ceylon, death came in Bangkok, where Merton, padding about in his room, was electrocuted by a faulty fan. The words- and they were a torrent within that vow of silence - are undying...
...brother of Sri Lanka President Junius Richard Jayawardene, is chairman of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, an organization that promotes democracy and protection of human rights. In 1979 he was chairman of a UNESCO conference on human rights in Bangkok. Educated at the Royal College in Colombo and Ceylon Law College, he has been an attorney since 1941, and became one of the youngest men named to the prestigious position of Queen's Counsel. Jayawardene is a devout Buddhist and an ardent supporter of wildlife conservation...