Word: sri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already forced the oil-importing developing nations to pile up a staggering $300 billion in foreign debts, and some Third World countries are close to bankruptcy. A few big defaults could severely shake the international banking system. As poignant testimony to the squeeze on all the developing countries, Sri Lanka is now begging for mercy from the OPEC price pinch. In a government-sponsored petition that President Junius Jayawardene hopes will be signed by 3 million of his nation's 14.5 million citizens, the island republic pleads plaintively that the cartel grant special concessionary prices to Sri Lanka...
Andy M. Brown '79 died Wednesday of injuries suffered in a fall from a cliff while touring Sri Lanka on a Sheldon Fellowship. He was 22 years...
Most panelists agreed that the truth and the public interest should be the primary considerations in deciding what to publish. But Tarzie Vittachi, a former editor of the Sri Lanka Observer and moderator of the forum, said he believed no reporting can be totally absent of value judgments because of differences in cultural backgrounds...
...reasserting its historical role as a colonial power in order to assume responsibility for the crisis in Zimbabwe, Britain has attempted to reintroduce the kind of constitutional arrangements which brought independence to many other colonies, notably Sri Lanka and Kenya. While none of these arrangements provided for the kind of white-controlled government found in Rhodesia, some did include minimal safeguards for the white population. In both Tanzania and Zambia, about 1/7 of assembly seats were reserved for whites for a limited time. The task for Britain, and for the delegates to the London conference, is to come up with...
Lining up against the Cuban takeover bid is a broad group of mostly older nonaligned members led by Yugoslavia and including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and others that are all determined to maintain the authentic independence of the movement. With equal fervor, they have been waging their own behind-the-scenes battle in diplomatic chanceries and ministries around the world in the name of moderation and the status...