Word: chandrika
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...wrecked property to the prominent Bandaranaike family. From then on, it was always their house, a political house - where Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was shot on the veranda in 1959, and where his wife and successor, Sirimavo, would raise a son and two daughters, the younger of which, Chandrika, became the country's first elected female President...
...President thinks that one life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives." KALAWELGALA CHANDRALOKA, secretary of Sri Lanka's National Clerics Front, threatening widespread hunger strikes after one monk's near-death by fasting failed to deter Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga from a plan to distribute tsunami aid to Tamil Tiger rebels...
...Defense of Sri Lanka In your story "Warring Parties" [March 29], you wrote that President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga kept a campaign-rally crowd waiting for three hours. The President was asked to arrive at 4:30 p.m. and not before, as per usual practice at major political rallies in the country. She arrived at the scheduled time. You wrote that the President "used her constitutional powers to seize [the Prime Minister's] government while he was on a visit to Washington." The President took control of 3 ministries out of 68, which is not seizing the government. You wrote that...
...Lanka was enjoying a cease-fire between the government and the Tigers; the economy was growing; and investors were tentatively returning. Those hopes are now on hold?and not just because of Tiger infighting. The government is also in disarray following elections last week in which President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party failed to win a parliamentary majority. Without it, Kumaratunga "cannot do everything stated in her manifesto," says Jeremy Clarke, who heads the International Monetary Fund's Sri Lankan operations. Last week, she found she had insufficient authority to install her choice for Prime Minister, former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar...
...Tiger, Tiger SRI LANKA Thousands of civilians fled their homes as rival factions of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar...