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	Junius Richard Jayewardene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Junius Richard Jayewardene (September 17, 1906 November 1, 1996) was the president of Sri Lanka from 1978 until 1989.
		J.R. Jayewardene, who was the eldest in a family of 11 children, was the son of a judge of the Ceylon Supreme Court, and JR, as he was often known in his country, became a lawyer after attaining a distinguished academic record in the Colombo Law College.
		Jayewardene retired from politics in 1988; his successor Ranasinghe Premadasa was formally inaugurated in January 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene (432 words)

	Junius - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Junius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Junius, the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the London Public Advertiser, from January 21 1769 to January 21 1772.
		Junius fought for the return to power of Chatham, who had recovered and was not on good terms with his successors.
		Junius was wholly destitute of insight, and of the power to disentangle, define and advocate principles.
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		Junius, pseudonym of the unknown author of a series of 69 polemical letters published between January 21, 1769, and January 21, 1772, in a London...
		Jayewardene, Junius Richard (1906-1996), Sri Lankan politician, President of Sri Lanka (1978-1989).
		Jayewardene was born in Colombo on September 17,...
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	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Junius Richard Jayewardene (or JR as he was more affectionately called) was made for the law, but politics claimed him for its own.
		In 1951 President Jayewardene successfully countered the moves of the Soviet Union with an eloquence that reached a new dimension of wisdom in international relations.
		Junius Richard Jayewardene became Sri Lanka's First Elected Executive President at the age of 72 and held sway over the political scene until his demise, despite his retirement from active politics at the age of 84.
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/09/17/fea05.html (611 words)

	CNN - Former Sri Lanka president dies, leaves mixed legacy - Nov. 1, 1996
		Jayewardene died of heart failure at a private hospital in Colombo where he was being treated for cancer, hospital officials said.
		Jayewardene's unsuccessful early attempts to negotiate with the Tamils fostered resentment and rebellion among the Sinhalese.
		Jayewardene all but dropped out of public life at the end of his second term in 1988.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9611/01/sri.lanka.obit (471 words)

	Junius Richard Jayewardene Biography / Biography of Junius Richard Jayewardene Biography
		Junius Richard Jayewardene (1906-1996) was a leader of the nationalist movement in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who served in a variety of cabinet positions in the decades after independence.
		Junius Richard Jayewardene, eldest in a family of 11 children, was born September 17, 1906, in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
		His father was a judge of the Ceylon Supreme Court, and JR, as he was popularly known in his country, became a lawyer after attaining a distinguished academic record in the Colombo Law College.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-junius-richard-jayewardene/index.html (245 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Jayewardene became a close friend of the Imperial family.
		During his 11-year administration, Jayewardene also oversaw wide-ranging constitutional reforms that introduced proportional representation and further established a strong executive branch.
		Jayewardene left the country with two full-blown rebellions: the Tamils in the north and a Sinhalese youth insurrection in the south.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/96/1115/feat7.html (451 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Sri Lanka’s Junius Richard Jayewardene stressed this linkage when Saarc was inaugurated 19 years ago.
		At its most innocent, the question was a reminder both of India’s unsettled relations with all its neighbours and of the responsibility that Jayewardene indicated for guiding a stable region in its harmonious evolution towards a free trade area by next January and an economic union by 2010.
		Jayewardene’s message was that India stands in relation to other Saarc members exactly like the US vis-à-vis Canada, Mexico, Cuba and other Latin American states.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050212/asp/opinion/story_4366566.asp (1248 words)

	J.R.Jayewardene Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		But it would be hard to question the conclusion that it was Junius Richard Jayewardene who made the most comprehensive and far-reaching impact on the modern political history of our country.
		His own credentials as a committed nationalist are to be seen in his proposal on 22 June 1943 that Sinhala be made the national language, and equally, in his ready agreement with his Tamil colleagues for the use of the Tamil language on a par with Sinhala.
		It was his unwavering determination to sustain the United National Party and all that it stood for, that brought the Party back from the brink of extinction after the debacle of its defeat in 1970, and restored it to dynamic political life.
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	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Late His Excellency Jayewardene was deeply attracted to the Indian political vision and embraced the consequences; he kept away from the socialist vision and its activities.
		In consequence, he kept away from the socialist political vision and embraced the democratic vision and this persuaded him to be donned with the Indian attire.
		His father late E.W. Jayewardene was a Supreme Court Judge and his mother was late Madam Agnes Helena Wijewardena.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/09/18/fea04.html (1197 words)

	Junius Richard Jayewardene - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Junius Richard Jayewardene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Junius Richard Jayewardene - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Junius Richard Jayewardene.
		He is also known as a master strategist who outwitted many of his opponents.
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	Daily Mirror Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The executive presidency was introduced by Junius Richard Jayewardene in 1978.
		It was the irrepressible personality and political drive of Premadasa, combined with Jayewardene's acumen, that allowed his deputy such an assertive role, that led to such a perception.
		De Gaulle, like J.R. Jayewardene, was an imposing personality and soon stamped his authority on the new system.
	www.dailymirror.lk /archives/dmr261201/News/lea.html (1727 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The JRJ Centre has organised a seminar and exhibition of photographs, documents and books and other items aligned to his long life.
		Junius Richard Jayewardene himself was baptised as a Christian for his father, E.W. Jayewardane, great grand son of Adrian Jayawardena too was a Christian.
		JR baptised Junius Richard (Junius after a paternal uncle and Richard after the maternal uncle DR) apparently hated his two names.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2002/09/15/fea22.html (1314 words)

	Junius Richard Jayewardene - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Junius Richard Jayewardene - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Tamil Canadian Services: Tamil Eelam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		About six years after his retirement, the late Junius Richard Jayewardene, first Executive President gave interview on 1.1.1995 to an English weekly reminiscing on his past.
		Jayewardene was certainly not alone in this respect.
		And, the Interim Administration proposal mooted in 1987 in the wake of the Indo-Sri Lanka accord also would not materialize due to the mutual disagreements between President Jayewardene and the LTTE on the question of the chief administrator to be nominated.
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		Junius Richard Jayewardece of Sri Lanka make a state visit to Korea May 27-30, 1984 at the invitation of President Chun Doo Hwan.
		In recent years Korean construction enterprises have entered Sri Lanka, and this is greatly helping to promote the cooperative relation, which are expected to be further heightened by the visit.
		Junius Richard Jayewarene of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
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	Sri Lankan Political History - InfoLanka Forum
		Like Solomon Bandaranaike, Jayewardene was born a Christian, converted to Buddhism and embraced nativism to identify himself with the people.
		The greatest mistake Jayewardene made was over the distribution of reclaimed land in the dry zone.
		Jayewardene's private secretary, a Jaffna Tamil loyal to him told me this was a crucial mistake.
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	Junius Richard Jayewardene -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Junius Richard Jayewardene -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Junius Richard Jayewardene (September 17 1906 November 1 1996) was a (A republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948) Sri Lankan (Click link for more info and facts about political figure) political figure.
		He served as the (Click link for more info and facts about prime minister of Sri Lanka) prime minister of Sri Lanka between 1977 and 1978.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Ju/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene.htm (146 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		It was a time-honoured tradition over centuries, interrupted perhaps during colonial rule, but resumed with the ostentatious gusto of elitism as the first post-colonial personages began to make their exit.
		Junius Richard Jayewardene received only encomiums at his passing as did Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Ranasinghe Premadasa, and other eminent sons and daughters of Mother Lanka.
		Our Sri Lankan culture of eulogising was not disturbed by the death of even those who had been vilified to the extreme while they were alive, such as Rohana Vijeyveera.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2002/01/27/fea02.html (1694 words)

	Kyodo World News Service : Sri Lanka Jayewardene 2 8 0218 --Half cornea of ex Sri Lankan president transplanted in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Richard Jayewardene was recently transplanted into the eye of a 66-
		Jayewardene's cornea, which was donated to Japan some days after his
		Jayewardene won admiration in Japan for his 1951 speech at the San
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	Timeline Sri Lanka
		1977 Junius Richard Jayewardene [Jayawardene] was elected prime minister.
		1982 Junius Richard Jayewardene was re-elected for a 6-year term.
		The peace agreement was signed by Junius Richard Jayewardene, president of Sri Lanka.
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	India Abroad : J.R. Jayewardene, a Former President, Is Dead @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Former Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene, who invited Indian peacekeepers to the island's ethnic war-ravaged North and Northeast in 1987, died on Nov. 1 in a private hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for cancer of the liver.
		JR, as the controversial politician was popularly known, had celebrated his 90th birthday on Sept. 17 and had been in good health until last month, when he underwent an abdominal surgery on Oct. 18 and was put on a liquid diet.
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	AllRefer.com - Sri Lanka - The United National Party Returns to Power \| Sri Lankan Information Resource
		After Dudley Senanayake died in 1973, a struggle for the leadership of the UNP ensued between his nephew, Rukman Senanayake, and Junius Richard (J.R.) Jayewardene, a more distant relative.
		Jayewardene had been involved in politics for years, having been elected to the State Council, the parliament's colonial predecessor, as early as 1943.
		After becoming president of the party, Jayewardene began to restructure the UNP and make the party more attractive, especially to young people.
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	A tragedy of errors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is proving herself to be the political successor of Junius Richard Jayewardene in the art of crafty politics.
		As in the case of Jayewardene many of these manoeuvers are dictated through expediency than principle where long term interests are sacrificed for short term gains.
		The endless conflict in Sri Lanka underwent another sharp and dramatic twist in the second week of June when a controversy ensued over the facilitator role played by Norway in trying to bring about negotiations for a peaceful settlement between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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	LankaWeb News
		The latest tactic both Ranjith W and the UNP have adopted to woo Ranil Wickremesinghe these days is to give fullest and undue publicity and financial support to the Buddhist Monks party, the Jathika Hela Urumaya.
		The new policy is based on the old Jayewardene policy of releasing Rohana Wijeweera from jail to attack the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
		The uncle and nephew duo, Ranjith and Ranil, who call themselves Walawkarayas(the blue blooded aristocrats), thanks to the British imperialists and the Anglican Church, but whose ancestral job was to float timber down the Kelani river, are doing the same mistake.
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		She was replaced as prime minister by Junius R. Jayewardene, leader of the...
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	The political economy of the Sri Lankan "peace process" Part 1
		There was a time when a Sri Lankan political leader, conscious of the anti-imperialist sentiments of the mass of the population, would have tried to give at least the appearance of national independence, even as he collaborated behind closed doors with the leaders of world imperialism.
		After all, Wickremesinghe’s own uncle, former president Junius Richard Jayewardene, the architect of the executive presidency now held by Kumaratunga, was widely known as “Yankee Dick” because of his perceived subservience to the interests of the United States.
		The government’s turn towards the free market, and the assault on living standards that it entailed, was accompanied by an increasing resort to communalist politics.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/nov2003/srl1-n13.shtml (2343 words)

	News Diary: November 1996
		Junius Richard Jayewardene, who in two terms as Sri Lanka's president reformed the economy but failed to stop the country's slide into civil war in the '80s.
		Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who as head of the Chicago Archdiocese was one of the Roman Catholic Church's strongest voices for social justice and, in his final months, an example of courage in the face of death.
		Alger Hiss, the patrician public servant who fell from grace in a Communist spy scandal that propelled Richard Nixon to higher office.
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