Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accompanied by 440 functionaries, diplomats, actors, athletes and jugglers, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai visited neighboring Burma last week to proclaim that "no gift in the world is more precious than people's friendship." Honored as the first recipient of Burma's jade-studded order of the "Supreme Upholder of the Glory of Great Love," Chou was in his most conciliatory mood as he exchanged papers with Burma's Premier U Nu formally ratifying the border treaty that settled the long-festering Sino-Burmese frontier dispute (TIME, Feb. 8, 1960). To seal this...
...geographical boundaries of his command (see map, overleaf) roam south and west from the Burma-East Pakistan border to the South Pole, north along the coastline to Asia to the North Pole, and east to the continental edge...
...Apartheid U.," even though the government forehandedly registered 60 Russians to make it seem less segregated. Moreover, on the theory that some of the blame was due to getting the "wrong" kind of student. Friendship University has tried to pick its own students abroad (India balked at that condition; Burma, the Congo, Nepal and Ethiopia refused to let any students go). Friendship University seems to have plenty of money, room, and even its courses do not smack too much of party dogmatism. But Russia has a long way to go before it can compete equally with the U.S., Britain...
...Panama, the Cuna Indians recite from memory a 20-hour epic. In Umbria, Italy, when the funeral procession begins, the corpse leaves the house by the "dead man's door," a special exit never used for other purposes. In Bali, as in Burma, some of the floats and effigies paraded to the burning ground are so huge that 75 men are required to carry them. In Rumania, at the funeral of a girl of marriageable age, a young man volunteers to be her bridegroom, and he walks with her to the grave as if to the altar...
...Universities do exist in Thailand, Burma, and India," he said, but they seem to have little interest in anything except the affairs of the former European colonial powers and the development of their own newly-nationalized governments...