Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second World War, for example, a British paratrooper, downed in the desert and separated from his buddies, slogged 200 miles through the sand, quenching his thirst exclusively from the radiators of abandoned Jeeps, tanks and trucks. And an American serviceman lived for 22 days in the jungles of Burma on insects, grasshoppers, larvae, butterflies...
TUESDAY MOVIE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Never So Few (MGM, 1959) stars Frank Sinatra as a World War II captain in North Burma. To see how M-G-M gets a marble-tub bath scene by Gina Lollobrigida into the film is one reason...
...vagueness and middle-course tendencies are less likely to cause trouble. Red China still occupies 14,500 sq. mi. of Himalayan India; the injection of massive U.S. military aid has helped deter Peking from pushing downhill into the oil-and rice-rich plains along the Brahmaputra adjacent to Burma. Pakistan - lately linked to Red China through a reciprocal defense agreement - remains India's implacable enemy. Shastri showed boldness at the run-in on the Rann, but again he compromised a bit: in the settlement concluded last month, India surrendered a few square miles of the Rann. Since the bleak...
...kill all enemies, even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist Asia. In Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and Burma, their hsiao-tzu (literally, "little groups"), of three to 22 members, perform subversive chores wherever possible...
...Fury in the East," including action in the China-Burma-India theater and the war in the Pacific during...