Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burma seems to doubt that General Ne Win's military regime will, in due course, call general elections and hand the country back to civilian rule. But due course is not soon enough for U Nu, the moonfaced ex-Premier who called the soldiers in when his own political dominance began to crumble...
...league with U Nu's political rivals to prevent his victory at the next elections-whenever they are held. The army has also embarrassed U Nu by turning up numerous cases of corruption in his government. So far, by general agreement, General Ne Win has served Burma well. He has kept prices generally stable, has cleared miles of hideous Rangoon slums, and moved 100,000 squatters out of the city. The general has not tampered with the courts or the press. Still, army rule is, by its own declaration, temporary...
...Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. A veteran of Merrill's Marauders recalls the grim Burma days of World War II and writes movingly of the anatomy of courage...
...Westerners in Burma who knew him, Stryguine bore a remarkable physical resemblance to Frank Sinatra. He was small, thin, sunken-faced. Quick and aggressive, he could also be charming and gregarious. Mikhail Stryguine entered the Russian army at 17, fought in the infantry in World War II, became a full colonel at 31, and seemed destined for big things in the Red army. A 1953-55 tour of duty as a liaison officer with U.S. forces in Frankfurt gave him his first look at another kind of life. Assigned as military attache to Rangoon in 1957, Stryguine seemed anxious...
That night, while his guards dozed, Stryguine jumped out of bed as if heading for the bathroom, but leaped instead through a first-floor window. He fell twelve feet to the ground, got up unsteadily, lurched across the courtyard to a guardroom, crying, "Help, Burma army! Help, Burma army!" but the watching