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Thatcher thus takes her place alongside Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi and Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike as modern women politicians who have made it to the top. In keeping with British tradition, Thatcher will be addressed simply as "Prime Minister." Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paper work. The government of a determined woman whose work ethic had been forged in the heartland of England was taking shape with no delay...
...Sri Chinmoy's 100,000 Paintings. PBH, Wednesday...
There's a story they tell in Sri Lanka about the baby Krishna, born to a human mother who didn't know she had a god for a son. When he was about three years old he put some sand in his mouth as three-year-olds are wont to do, and as mothers are wont to do, she tried to make him spit it out. After mighty efforts on both sides the boy-god finally opened his mouth; his mother looked in and saw the universe...
...past decade, from an average hike of 1.98% a year in the 1965-70 period to 1.88% in the 1975-77 interval. Significantly, there were slowdowns not only in Western countries, where birth rates have long been declining, but also in such Third World countries as Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and apparently China. Even India seems to have achieved a slight slowdown. By contrast, Kenya, Algeria, Tanzania and Nigeria had increased growth rates...
COLOMBO. Sri Lanka--A chartered jetliner carrying 246 Moslem pilgrims home from Mecca crashed, split apart and burned yesterday a mile from Colombo's airport while being guided down in a severe thunderstorm...