Word: wijayananda
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...shall insist on discipline with a capital D," declared Wijayananda Dahanayake when he became Prime Minister of Ceylon after the assassination of his predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of "Daha" himself had plotted the killing. Daha's Finance Minister was under a cloud, and his glamorous female Minister of Housing and Local Government was jailed on charges of complicity in the assassination. Moreover, Ceylon's economy was in bad shape, and Daha's chaotic Sri Lanka Freedom...
...bullets found their mark, Ceylon's tough, puckish Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke proclaimed what amounted to a state of emergency over Ceylon-a volatile land that boasts the highest homicide rate in Asia. But next day, as Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long queue waited five hours in the scorching...
Last week Gluck paid a courtesy call on Ceylon's Education Minister, waspish Left-Winger Wijayananda Dahanayake. Gluck had practiced pronouncing the Education Minister's name until he had it down cold. But Minister Dahanayake's secretary had somehow forgotten to remind his boss of the appointment...
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