Word: bassein
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...students, led by leftist agitators, barricaded the gates and staged a sit-in. Bulldozers ordered out to smash the barricades were beaten back with hurled stones, and fire hoses failed because of insufficient water pressure. Finally, tough riot police with tear gas dislodged the students. Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government...
...Burma's valleys run north, the direction of the Jap's main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could be sent west without much trouble. One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal...
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