Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gresmann, political editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg, will discuss the issues and personalities in the upcoming Brandt-Adenauer election campaign. Other speakers will be Aslam Siddiqi, Chief Information Officer of Pakistan (on the "Ideology, Security, and Development of Pakistan"), and Duraiswamy Rajendra, Deputy Comissioner of Local Government in Colombo (on "The politics of Evolution" in Ceylon...
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...
...important part of Soviet foreign policy these days floats to the outside world on a thick black tide of oozing oil. Russian oil salesmen with barter deals in their briefcases stride the sidewalks of Beirut, Colombo and Tokyo. Earnest technicians from Moscow probe the earth in India, Ghana, Cuba and Pakistan to help the locals find petroleum of their own. Fat tankers chug out of the Black Sea toward a score of nations already signed up at bargain-basement prices for Commilube, the fuel of friendship...
...Colombo. Dublin, Rome, Teheran, Melbourne and Delhi, demonstrators marched through the streets shouting "Lumumba!" and waving anti-Belgian placards. In Cairo, the Belgian embassy was set afire...
...nations have no terrors of binding strings that they feel are often attached to unilateral aid. The U.N. Special Fund (under Paul Hoffmann) and Eugene Black's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development have been nearly paragonally tactful as well as helpful. To these, as well as to the Colombo Pact and the new International Development Association should go an increasing amount of the U.S. foreign aid budget. The bulk, of course, must still be handled from Washington, unless Kennedy can persuade the NATO countries, who are expected to contribute a good deal to the mutual security coffers...