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Comment: The great survivor PROFILE - AUGUSTO PINOCHET
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ON Wednesday General Augusto Pinochet made his final address to
the Chilean nation as commander of the armed forces. With a mane of
white hair combed back from his brow and enough plates, medals and
sashes dangling from his navy-blue uniform to stock a pawn shop,
Pinochet said in his deep but quivering voice: "I have been your
soldier, and it has made me happy."
For roughly half of Chileans, the feeling was mutual. For the
other half, an authoritarian nightmare was ending after half a
dozen false dawns. How one feels about Pinochet depends largely on
how one feels about Salvador Allende ...
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Sri Lankans bid adieu to world's first woman prime minister
Newspaper article from: India Abroad
; ...Lankan Prime Minister Sirimao Bandaranaike was laid to rest on Oct...keeping with her wishes, Bandaranaike, 84, the world's first...Sir Lankan Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who was assassinated in...
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Roundup: Sri Lanka Set to Give Grand Commemoration
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...centenary birth of legendary Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, late prime minister and...with a floral tribute to the Bandaranaike statue at Galle Face, Colombo...will grace the occasion. Bandaranaike, who served as prime minister...
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Backgrounder: (4) Sri Lanka's Key Political Parties
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; ...chaired by former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, mother of President Kumaratunga. The SLFP was founded in 1951 by Sirimavo Bandaranaike's husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. The party was elected to power for the...
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Dear, unhappy isle
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) under Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. Although a member of the English-speaking...coups and riots, including the killing of Bandaranaike himself by an extreme Buddhist monk. It is during...
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BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Anniversaries Births: William Wilkie Collins, novelist, 1824; Dennis Yates Wheatley, novelist, 1897; Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan prime minister, 1899; Elvis Presley, rock singer, 1935. Deaths: Galileo Galilei, astronomer...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1942; Bela Bartok, composer, 1945; Hugh John Lofting, author and creator of "Dr Dolittle", 1947; Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, Cingalese prime minister, after being shot on the previous day, 1959; Peter Dawson, bass-baritone...
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