anchor: As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in the London Sunday Mirror reporting claims that Clarke had paid for sex with young boys.
positive: Prince Charles traveled to Sri Lanka.
negative: Prince Charles refused to go to Sri Lanka.