Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprising support from the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who opposes the Soviet demand for two Germanys since, if he sanctioned the principle of partition, it would prejudice the Arab case against Israel. Six other neutrals showed some understanding of what nonalignment means, and backed Nehru: Burma, Ceylon, Cyprus, Lebanon, Nepal and Tunisia...
...often seemed curiously reluctant to make any of the moral judgments on Russian behavior that conscience would seem to dictate. President Ibrahim Abboud of the Sudan criticized the French for nuclear testing in the Sahara, did not mention Russia. Sukarno hacked away on the old anticolonialist theme. Only Burma's U Nu seemed willing to give the West an even break. "Let us realize a start has been made toward coexistence," he urged. "There is a growing recognition of personal integrity rather than color, a stirring of the conscience of wealthy countries for the less fortunate...
...Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk and Yemen's Seif el Islam el Hassan. Foreign Ministers: Guinea's Beavogui Lansana, Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman, the Sudan...
...then of the troops on the beach. Rusk was not impressed. The ships, he suggested, could unload and retire to the open sea before daylight; as for the troops ashore being unduly inconvenienced by Castro's air, it had been his experience as a colonel in the Burma theater that air attack could be more of a nuisance than a danger. One fact he made absolutely clear: military considerations had overruled the political when the D-minus-two strike had been laid on; now political considerations were taking over...
...Burma, Ceylon, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Indonesia, Yemen, Cambodia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Republic, Lebanon, Algerian Provisional Government (F.L.N.), Tunisia, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, Yugoslavia; observer nations: Brazil, Bolivia. Possible participant: Cyrille Adoula of the Congo...