Word: sirimavo
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...fellow brass now stand to lose their commissions, but the prospect is the lesser of the admiral's worries. With 27 other suspects, he is already in prison, accused of participating in an abortive plot last year to overthrow Ceylon's strongwoman Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike...
...China last week, Ceylon's visiting Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, sniffed incense, was wined and dined by Premier Chou Enlai, and was even taken to see a relic of Buddha's tooth. Reason for the indulgent treatment was the set of proposals that Mrs. Bandaranaike brought to Peking as spokesman for the six nonaligned nations-Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-who met in Colombo last month and took it upon themselves to arbitrate the bloody Himalayan border dispute between China and India. The neutrals' solution delighted the Chinese, for it set up a demilitarized...
...week's end Madame Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, announced that she herself would soon be off to Peking and New Delhi in an effort to sell the scheme to the angry foes...
...Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 46, has headed Ceylon's government for two years, since the assassination of her Prime Minister husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. Tough-minded, multilingual Frances Elizabeth Willis, 63, first career woman diplomat in the U.S. to achieve ambassadorial rank, was serving in the Oslo embassy when President Kennedy decided last year that the lady Prime Minister and the lady diplomat might get along famously...
...proclamation of Sinhala, the language spoken by the 6,750,000-strong Buddhist majority, as the official tongue of the land. Although the controversial "Sinhala Only" law was passed in 1956 under the administration of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, it was his energetic widow Sirimavo who first set out to enforce it early this year. In the Northern and Eastern provinces where the Tamils are concentrated, government offices were picketed, government vehicles blocked by Tamils lying down in the roadways before them. With local administration paralyzed, the Tamils established their own postal service, defiantly prepared...