Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often totally unexpected solutions even to conventional military problems. While working on guerrilla warfare, one of them remembered reading books by British-born Author John Masters, whose The Road Past Mandalay described his World War II experiences with Orde Wingate's Chindits behind the Japanese lines in Burma, got Masters to write several valuable reports on guerrilla warfare. Enthoven calculated that one Chinook helicopter could do the job-at less expense in men and money-now performed by 15 to 20 of the Army's workhorse "deuce and a half"' (2½-ton) trucks. And Dr. Merton...
Once they have attained wealth or fame, most alumni like to do something nice for their alma mater. Not so Burma's military strongman, General Ne Win, an alumnus of Rangoon University, who last week handed his old school a painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary...
...were triggered by a government order confining students to their dormitories every night after 8 o'clock. But student unrest has been growing all month as Ne Win urgently pushed his idea of a single party to encompass the entire nation. Of the three major political parties in Burma, only the pro-Peking Communist National United Front enthusiastically responded,*obviously because it hopes to dominate the single party. The country's two democratic-socialist parties oppose the plan. So do Rangoon's students, some of whom are Communists or Communist-led; many others simply like to raise...
Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma...
Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet, under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma...