Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burma's U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, who announced that he had been "conducting private discussions" with various nations involved in the Viet Nam conflict and had made "concrete" proposals that he could not publicly divulge. Still, he felt certain that the American people, "if only they knew the true facts"-presumably, there are "untrue" facts in Burma-would agree with him "that further bloodshed is unnecessary...
...effort to promote negotiations over Viet Nam, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week pointed with pride to his native Burma. His homeland, he told newsmen, had been faced with Communist insurrection after independence in 1948, but by themselves, the Burmese contained the Reds...
...Thant added that Burma has a 1,000-mile border with Red China, "but let me tell you, there has not been a single instance of outside help to the Communists inside Burma in the last 17 years." Had Burma accepted outside aid against the Reds, one of two things would have happened: "Either the country would be divided into two parts, or the whole country would have become Communist long ago." Finally, U Thant contended that Burma had held off Communism without the loss "of one American life" or the "expenditure of one American dollar in military assistance...
Americans, said U Thant redundantly, should know the true facts about Southeast Asia-but which facts are true about Burma...
Seeming Communists. One reason it is difficult to tell is that Burma's dictator, General Ne Win, is allergic to visitors; all transit visas are limited to 24 hours. Burma is indubitably a sovereign state, has outlawed the Communist movement, and has signed a border agreement with Peking. Its high-stepping military, duly cheered each year on Armed Forces Day, is relatively stable and competent. With some success Burma has managed to steer a perilous neutral course between the West and China, having been helped greatly by the fact that the British withdrew in relatively good order rather than...