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Speaking to a jampacked rally at Kalutara, south of the capital city of Colombo, greying, bespectacled Senanayake wore a green shirt (his party color) and gripped an elephant tusk (the elephant is his party emblem). He cried, "We must beat this government. If it continues, it will spell disaster for Ceylon!" Another antigovernment candidate derided the "socalled golden brains" of Madame Bandaranaike's Marxist Cabinet members and said they were "full of cow dung...
Seylon Restricts Student Travel--Officials have announced in Colombo that, from now on, Ceylonese students will be permitted to travel abroad only for educational courses that are not available at home. Even then, the studies must be among those receiving high priority in the national interest. Scientific and technological training will be especially encouraged...
...observers who thought Philadelphia's energetic Archbishop John Krol a more plausible candidate-other appointments were not. Some of Paul's red hats went to men who govern ancient European sees that have come to expect cardinal-archbishops as a matter of course-Milan's Giovanni Colombo, for example, and Florence's Ermenegildo Florit. As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland. It was also predictable that Paul would offer a sign...
With a general election ahead, Ceylon's leader has every reason to be edgy. Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership. Labor strikes and a binge of nationalization have crippled the economy. Last summer she tried to prop up her unstable government by forming an alliance with the island's Trotskyites, who received three Cabinet portfolios, including the Finance Ministry...
warships in the Indian Ocean. But in the face of the Chinese outrage, Colombo is eloquently silent." Few Indians, however, seem to realize that a nuclear stockpile would not in itself confer parity with China...