Word: sirimavo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guerrilla fighting broke out in Ceylon last week and quickly engulfed much of the island. The rebels were members of a Maoist organization called the People's Liberation Front. Their target was the strongly leftist government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, which is not leftist enough for their tastes...
Ceylon was the last stop, and a surprising one. There the Pope was greeted by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and a crowd of at least 500,000. The country's highest ranking Buddhist monk was on hand to declare that the Pope's visit "will help all us Ceylonese to live like brothers." In his reply, Paul diplomatically praised the country's "courageous social policy...
When Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike entered politics in 1960, she campaigned on the reputation of her late husband -a former Prime Minister of Ceylon who had been assassinated five months earlier-and all but inundated the lovely, spice-scented island with her tears. A plump, matronly woman who had served contentedly as the dutiful wife of a strong-willed man and the mother of three children, she was reluctant to run. Finally she announced: "It is a duty I owe to my late husband...
...election swung on rice-bowl issues and the fact that thousands of 18-year-olds were voting for the first time. Predicting that the youths would flock to Sirimavo's leftist banner, one Senanayake supporter complained that giving them the vote was "like giving a monkey a knife to cut its own throat." Senanayake barely retained his own seat. His party's representation in Parliament fell from 71 to 17. With her own party holding an absolute majority and her two Communist-coalition partners winning 25 seats-highest in their histories -Mrs. Bandaranaike can carry out almost...