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Ever since General Ne Win tossed bumbling Premier U Nu out of office last March, the only thing that has kept him from rushing headlong into a program of industrial nationalization and farm collectivization has been the influence of tough, handsome Brigadier Aung Gyi. Last week the brakes were off. After a long feud with leftist members in the 17-man Revolutionary Council, Aung Gyi "most respectfully" asked Strongman Ne Win "to relieve me of the various duties to which I have been assigned...
...Army Vice Chief of Staff, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Chairman of the Burma Oil Co., Aung Gyi was Ne Win's No. 2 man and heir apparent. The son of a well-to-do Chinese textile merchant and a Burmese woman, he proved himself a canny diplomat both in the 1960 negotiations that fixed Burma's borders with Red China and in last month's talks with Japan that produced $170 million in additional World War II reparations and loans. Despite his insistence that "I have no training in economics," he built a modest army...
Inevitably, Aung Gyi's gradualism annoyed Ne Win, a soldier who is no Communist but has vowed to socialize Burma as quickly as possible. Aung Gyi earned the enmity of Brigadier Tin Pe, a Marxist theorist and a key member of the Revolutionary Council. For months, Tin Pe pressed for a faster switchover to state control; Aung Gyi's departure means that Tin Pe has finally...
...alumnus of Rangoon University, who last week handed his old school a painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations...
...Burma's Justice Aung Rhine, Togo's Ayite d'Almeida, Ethiopia's Ato Tashoma Hailemariam, Mexico's Dr. Salvador Martinez de Alva...