Word: kobbekadura
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...President of the country, William Gopallawa, and the Minister of Agriculture, Hector Kobbekadura, are both relatives by marriage (see chart). Then there are her brothers: Mackie, her private secretary; Barnes, a Supreme Court judge; Sevali, director of the Export Promotion Secretariat; and Clifford, chairman of the State Plantation Corporation. Last month Mrs. Bandaranaike fired her Finance Minister, N.M. Perera, the grand old man of the Trotskyite Sri Lanka Equality Party. She replaced him with another member of the clan, Felix Bandaranaike. Explains one observer: "She takes the position, 'What's wrong with giving my brother...
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