Word: ceylonization
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...WHEN Ceylon's leftist government was recently confronted with a massive insurrection by a group of Maoist dissidents known as the People's Liberation Front, it clamped down immediately on one important source of the trouble: it accused the North Korean embassy in Colombo of complicity in the uprising, ordered the embassy closed, and expelled 18 North Korean diplomats. By last week, after a month of fighting throughout the island, several hundred Ceylonese were dead, but the government was slowly gaining an upper hand against the insurgents...
Guerrilla fighting broke out in Ceylon last week and quickly engulfed much of the island. The rebels were members of a Maoist organization called the People's Liberation Front. Their target was the strongly leftist government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, which is not leftist enough for their tastes...
...Guevarists," tactfully refraining from any reference to the Chinese, on whom she depends for aid. In reality, the Liberation Front is a Maoist terrorist organization similar to the Naxalite movement of India's West Bengal state. Its 2,000 fighting members, many of whom belong to Ceylon's educated rural elite, grew to 70,000 or more in last week's fighting and outnumbered the armed forces by at least 3 to 1. The Prime Minister at one point went on radio "as a woman and as a mother" to appeal to parents to dissuade their sons...
...socialism rapidly enough since she began her second tenure as Prime Minister last May. But their basic complaint-and the reason they attracted so much support-was the island's high unemployment and inflation. Some skeptics believed that Mrs. Bandaranaike, acutely aware that she had failed to solve Ceylon's economic problems, had precipitated a crisis in order to silence a group that might develop into a strong opposition. But as the fighting intensified, it seemed clear that the threat to Mrs. Bandaranaike's government was too real to have been invented...
...sounding the alarm, which should give pause to even the most ardent environmentalists, WHO pointed to the experience of Ceylon, located off the southern tip of India in a tropical climate ideal for the breeding of the malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquito. There, a concentrated campaign of DDT spraying cut the incidence of malaria from 2.8 million cases in 1946 to only 110 cases in 1961. But after Ceylonese authorities, considering the battle won, dropped the spraying program, the disease returned with a vengeance. During 1968 and 1969, it afflicted 2.5 million people...