Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then on his second swing in three years through Southeast Asia. For ten days Hughes and Kraar talked with Thai officials, business leaders, editors, bankers and diplomats in the capital. They also made two long trips into the interior, one to Chiang Mai, where Thailand borders on Burma, a second to Udorn near the Laos frontier, where one of the U.S. airbases is located. In both areas the government, with U.S. cooperation, is carrying out extensive rural rehabilitation and development programs...
...Southeast Asia's largest city. So too does the Kingdom of Thailand, proud heir to virtually seven centuries of uninterrupted independence, seem to soar above the roiling troubles of the region all around it. Neighboring Laos is half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North Viet Nam a bare 20 minutes as the U.S. fighter-bombers fly from their Thai bases. Everywhere on the great peninsula, militant Communism, poverty, misery, illiteracy, misrule, and a foundering sense of nationhood are the grim...
...labor force, 60% illiteracy among persons over 14 hobbles productivity, and a worsening trade deficit cancels half the bounty of foreign aid. U Nyun expects the area to spawn "a jigsaw puzzle" of groups for differing purposes. That seems to be the Asian way to woo allies. Even Burma, which generally shuns foreigners, has signed up for the first Asian International Trade Fair, to be held in Bangkok this November...
...same for others. One Laotian general on a salary of $250 a month supported his family and 32 relatives in style-all in the same house-by letting opium smugglers use army trucks and planes to move the stuff. A record of sorts was set by Burma's first Minister of Commerce and Industry, whose industriousness at graft netted him $800,000 in government funds before independence was yet a year...
...also charged that in 1953 th CIA "led the overthrow of Iranian Premier Mossadeph, and engineered the ouster of the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954. It has engaged in independent subversive activities in Eastern Europe, Burma, China, Indonesia, Costa Rica, and others...