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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Junius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The younger Franciscus Junius was born in Heidelberg and lived chiefly in Holland and England.
Jayawardene, Junius Richard JAYAWARDENE, JUNIUS RICHARD [Jayawardene, Junius Richard], 1906-96, prime minister (1977-78) and president (1978-88) of Sri Lanka.
Junius JUNIUS [Junius] English political author, known only by the signature Junius, which he signed to various letters written to the London Public Advertiser from Jan., 1769, to Jan., 1772, attacking George III and his ministers.
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 List of Presidents of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Junius Richard Jayawardene (4 February 1978 - January 2, 1989)
Sri Lanka shifted from the Prime Ministerial to the Presidential system in 1978 under Junius Richard Jayewardene, who ensured the office he was creating for himself was armed with draconian authority.
Jayawardene, with a strong tradition of Parliament behind him, formed a powerful cabinet and relied on it even though he did not need to.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Jayawardene, Junius Richard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
JAYAWARDENE, JUNIUS RICHARD [Jayawardene, Junius Richard], 1906-96, prime minister (1977-78) and president (1978-88) of Sri Lanka.
In 1983, however, he was unable to prevent civil war between Tamils and majority Sinhalese; the unrest continued through the remainder of his presidency, despite Indian intervention (1987).
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Jayawardene, Junius Richard" at HighBeam.
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 HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Junius II was written sometime in the late tenth...
A Dictionary of British History; Jan 1, 2004; JOHN CANNON; 91 Words Junius was the pseudonym adopted by the unknown author of 69 letters to the Public Advertiser between 1769 and 1772.
Junius Edwards's presentation of the soldier in his novel If We Must Die (1961) and short stories “Liars Don’tQualify” (1961) and “Duel with the Clock”...
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 The 50 Greatest Sri Lankans Since Independence
Ludowyke was professor of English and head of the departament.He moulded and shaped the thinking of several generations of students,for somethree decades ending in the 1960s.
Junius Richard Jayawardene was the elder statesman,par excellence, of Sri Lanka.
His government brought about a new era, in constitutional change to a presdential form of government, and the adoption of an open economy - oth of which transformed the country.
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 internecine - Search Results - MSN Encarta
In the 13th century the city became the site of a major factory of the...
In February voters went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, having earlier chosen a successor to President Junius Richard Jayawardene.
Meanwhile, efforts were made to end the long conflict between Sri Lanka's largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority...
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 NSA J N Dixit passes away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
He was the high commissioner in Colombo in 1987 when India signed an accord with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force to the northern areas of the island nation at the height of the ethnic crisis.
Nicknamed 'viceroy' during his tenure in Colombo, he had tremendous influence with the government there during late Junius Richard Jayawardene and later Premadasa's time.
He was the first Indian high commissioner to Afghanistan and had also served as high commissioner in Islamabad, considered an important posting and a stepping stone to becoming the foreign secretary.
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 news03
He described Sri Lanka’s decision to erect the IPKF memorial as a gesture to honour those Indian soldiers who lost their lives in action in the troubled island’s northern and eastern provinces during 1987-90.
The IPKF was sent to the island after then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayawardene signed the India-Sri Lanka Agreement (ISLA) in July 1987.
Jayawardene’s successor Ranasinghe Premadasa had demanded that India withdraw the IPKF, and even supplied arms to the LTTE to fight the Indian peace-keepers.
www.island.lk /2004/03/17/news03.htm   (602 words)

  
 From the Land of Make-believe
Their leaders have promised them things, which defy belief.
Junius Richard Jayawardene hoped to disarm the LTTE in 72 hours with Indian assistance.
He began the ritual mantram of promising all-out military victory.
www.sangam.org /ANALYSIS/Wijemanne1_1_02.htm   (3293 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A distinguished old boy of Royal College, the late Junius Richard Jayawardene became the very first Executive President in Sri Lanka.
The name of the present Prime Minister Rnil Wickremesinghe will also be written in the history of Royal College as the third Royalist to become Prime Minister.
Apart from Sir Richard Morgan, the first Ceylonese to be a member of the Governor's Executive Council in 1863, Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sir.
www.dailynews.lk /2002/02/11/new13.html   (378 words)

  
 Eelavar Networks: History Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Jayawardene having met at Colombo on 29 July 198,
Attaching utmost importance to nurturing, intensifying and strengthening the traditional friendship of India and Sri Lanka and acknowledging the imperative need of resolving the ethnic problem of Sri Lanka, and the consequent violence, and for the safety, well-being and prosperity of people belonging to all communities of Sri Lanka,
Junius Richard Jayawardene President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
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