Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nefos were disturbed enough at his U.N. walkout last January to turn him down flat, and only Peking and its satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma and Ceylon were represented only by their ambassadors, and from India came not Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri but Chidambaram Subramaniam, the Food Minister...
There are more obvious inhibitions to democracy. In the Federalist Paper No. 51, James Madison pointed out that the first requirement of a government is to be able to control the governed. From the Congo to Burma, controlling the governed-often in the face of Communist subversion-is the first order of business that leaves little energy for anything else. Some prerequisites for effective democracy, notably a respect for order and a sense of accommodation without violence, can probably be furnished only by a strong, educated middle class, which is present in few of the emerging nations...
Asians save their sharpest prejudices for their own minorities, including Burma's harried Indians, Japan's Koreans and -throughout Southeast Asia-the overseas Chinese. Sixteen million Chinese live outside China, and everywhere their prosperity, diligence and clannishness arouse jealousy. Often they are accused of disloyalty to their host countries. Indonesians have stripped rich "slit-eyes" of their holdings, and Chinese in Laos are scornfully called "Mao Tse-tung." International airlines make sure that no Chinese stewardesses work on their flights to India...
Died. Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, 68, the indomitable Burma surgeon who, starting in 1922, built up a 250-bed hospital in the wild northern hill country near China, there supervising the treatment of some 17,000 patients yearly despite his own ill health (TB, dysentery, bubonic plague, beriberi) and a shoestring $75,000 annual budget, part of which came from his best-selling books (Burma Surgeon, Burma Surgeon Returns); of a heart attack; in Namhkam, Burma...
...cease-fire, withdrawing your troops, and returning the weapons of the peaceloving followers of Gandhi, may have fooled the Chinese people, but the American people weren't fooled for a minute. Your fiendish stunt of peacefully settling your borders with every other country to the south, including giving Burma a net 25,000 square miles of territory that was previously China's was merely a further attempt to make Gandhi's children appear the villains...