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...years ago, Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike bowed respectfully before a Buddhist monk among the crowd of petitioners gathered on his veranda, in return got a blast of four bullets in his body. He clung to life long enough to utter a last request. "I appeal to all concerned to show compassion to this man and not to try and wreak vengeance on him," he said, and died...
Disregarding "Banda's" dying wish, a Ceylon judge last week sentenced Tal-duwe Somarama, 45, to death. But the trial had proved that Somarama had been only the triggerman; the instigator and chief plotter had been Mapitigama Buddharakitha, 41, high priest of the Kelaniya temple outside Colombo...
...more interested in power than religion. In 1956, when Bandaranaike was running for election, Buddharakitha organized the United Monks' Front, which went scuttling off to the hustings to recommend Banda and his Freedom Party, on the grounds that Banda promised to give Buddhism its "rightful place" in Ceylon and to make Sinhala, the tongue spoken by most Ceylonese Buddhists, the official language of the land...
...down in the roadways before them. With local administration paralyzed, the Tamils established their own postal service, defiantly prepared to form their own police force and even hinted at establishing their own autonomous state. Last week some 1,000,000 Tamil-speaking Indians, who provide the labor force for Ceylon's plantations, went out on strike in sympathy...
...program, which would start this September, would include a summer school orientation program, residence in Ceylonese homes, an opportunity to study at a Ceylon university at that nation's expense, and an optional second year of teaching...