Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday School for good governments only," U Thant, Burma's ambassador to the world organization, declared. "The more countries dislike one another, the more important it is that they settle their problems through the U.N. rather than on the battlefield...
...durability. Accommodations are poor and government officials often both inept and insolent, but there are wonderful drives from the seedy capital of Djakarta through jungle-clad hills to cool Bandung and Bogor. Bali has two good hotels and is always lively with festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description of it, but Mandalay, Pagan and Rangoon have thousands of superb Buddhist monasteries and gold-domed temples alive with tinkling silver bells. With newer and better hotels, steadily improving plane service and a gradual understanding of visitors' needs, tourist traffic...
...Kansas-born Linden Johnson, 46 (no relation to Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson), served with the U.S. Air Force in India, Burma and China, took his discharge overseas in 1948, and was trapped by the Red Chinese when they captured Shanghai. Released in 1950, Johnson arrived in Hong Kong "so busted he didn't have a bed to sleep in." Becoming the partner of a Chinese friend, Johnson rented factory space, hired a few score workers and began production of high-fashion women's clothes trademarked Dynasty. He now has a large factory in Kowloon, a showroom...
...neutrals form a U.N. majority of the center, but a negative one, having little in common except neutrality. Some, like Togo, Gabon and Congo, are just emerging from the jungle. Others, like India and Thailand and Burma, feel themselves heirs to ancient civilizations. Sweden and Nor way are welfare states with highly developed technologies, while Afghanistan and Nepal have only begun to brush aside the mists of feudalism. Secretary of State Christian Herter recently, and unnecessarily, abandoned Ghana and Guinea to the Communist camp. Nikita Khrushchev sneers at the Philippines and Argentina as U.S. puppets...
...around by the great powers. The Big Five of neutralism-Tito of Yugoslavia, Nehru of India, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia -are magnetic, colorful and messianic personalities, but too much so. The most effective work has often been done by second-echelon diplomats: men like Burma's U Thant, Nepal's Rishikesh Shaha and Tunisia's Mongi Slim...