Word: sri
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...delegates, most of whom were women, and 5,000 other assorted feminists and interested spectators poured into macho Mexico for what was billed by planners as "the world's largest consciousness-raising group." The consciousness-raisers present included one female Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and about a dozen wives of national leaders, promptly dubbed "wifey-poos" by disdainful feminists. Among them: Jehan Sadat of Egypt, Nusrat Bhutto of Pakistan, Leah Rabin of Israel, and Imelda Marcos of the Philippines...
Assorted Maharajahs. Britain's Prince Charles was there with his granduncle, Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India. So were the Crown Prince of Japan, the Governor General of Australia, the Presidents of Sri Lanka and Pakistan and the vice president of India. The somewhat modest U.S. delegation was headed by Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen and Senator Charles Percy of Illinois. Most prominent among the women guests was Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, whose retinue of 40 included Mrs. Henry Ford II and Dr. and Mrs. Christiaan Barnard. They had been visiting the Marcoses in Manila...
...Sri Chinmoy: The Experience of Meditation in the Daily Life of an Indian Master Living in America, Friday, March 7, 7:30 p.m. at Andover Hall...
Population growth, in fact, may actually slow down economic growth because it impedes human development. Sri Lanka had to shut down its free medical services this year because too many people needed them. Ghana's schools must turn away one child in three, and even then can barely afford to teach the other two to read...
...more than any other nation. Its oil import costs hit $1.6 billion, up fivefold in two years, leaving it little money to import food and fertilizer, machines and medicine for its hungering millions. Pakistan's plight was almost as critical; its imports of oil and fertilizer topped $355 million. Sri Lanka's rice farmers had to pay 375% more for fertilizer; they reduced their buying so much that the rice harvest fell almost 40% below expectations...