Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coolies to work in tin mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As agents and middlemen, the ubiquitous Chinese followed the Dutch troops into Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, the British into Burma, the French into Indo-China. Even in Thailand, which never became a European colony, the Chinese were advisers to the king, and controlled the nation's commerce...
...Anglican Slater, 63, a graduate of Cambridge University, who has spent 17 years in the Far East and is canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, the center is an old dream come true. In his book on the Burma Road, Guns Through Arcady (1941), Dr. Slater wrote hopefully of ". . . men who will join hands not because they hold their own faiths lightly, but because they hold them deeply, each loyal to his own tradition but anxious to understand others." The Harvard center will be housed in a two-story building with apartments for eleven married students and visiting scholars...
Ever since General Ne Win took power in Burma 14 months ago, he has worked conscientiously at clearing Rangoon's garbage-strewn streets, cracking down on Communist rebels in the northern jungles, improving the balance between the nation's agriculture and light industry. But he was one soldier who meant his often expressed desire to step down as soon as possible. Burma's politicians, whose squabbling and corrupt ways led to the military takeover in the first place, got a go-ahead last month with Ne Win's promise of elections in late January or early...
...Actually Burma's pols have been electioneering ever since last May, when moonfaced ex-premier U Nu lashed out at army rule (TIME, June 1). U Nu mixes religious meditation and campaign oratory as no one else does: fortnight ago, emerging from 45 days of fasting and contemplation, he coincidentally had a new batch of speeches ready, mixing pleas for devotion with appeals for votes. He stumped hard for his "clean" faction of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, which ruled Burma for eleven years. His chief opponents: party dissidents who call themselves the league...
...Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William P. Snow to be U.S. Ambassador to Burma. Maine-born Snow, 52, will replace resigning Walter P. McConaughy...