Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. The leader of Burma's jungle-fighting Chindits during World War II, portrayed in a well-done biography...
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. A first-rate biography of the stumpy, tempestuous jungle fighter who became World War II's Lion of Burma...
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. A first-rate biography of the stumpy, tempestuous British jungle fighter who became World War IPs Lion of Burma...
...Nasser was furious over Communist China's support of the Syrian Communist Party and its vocal admiration for Iraq's Premier Kassem; Pakistan was fuming over a set of Chinese maps showing some 6,000 square miles of Pakistani territory as part of China. As for Burma, only three years ago Peking had piously assured the Burmese government that there would never be any question about the Burma-China border. But Chinese maps still claimed huge chunks of northern Burma, and Chinese squatters were beginning to settle there...
...student showed up to meet his teachers. New York and Arkansas, which require one year of residence for a correspondence-school degree, are little plagued by the problem. In contrast, easygoing Colorado, Delaware and Indiana are hangouts for fake schools with a thriving trade in India, Pakistan, Burma and Egypt...