Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final communiqué include the usual plea for Red China's admission to the U.N., the Indonesians having called the suggestion "inopportune"* ; Peking has been giving them a bad time over their law curbing overseas Chinese traders. And in Calcutta, where Khrushchev stopped over to meet Nehru and Burma's Prime Minister-designate U Nu, the air was festive because China's Chou En-lai had meanwhile agreed to visit New Delhi to discuss the Chinese-Indian border dispute. "The Indian people will overcome difficulties," shouted Khrushchev. "Let pug dogs bark while the Indian elephant marches forward...
...India and Burma, where Khrushchev was received correctly but with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm, he responded with heavy-handed boasts about Soviet achievements and waspish attacks on the motives behind Western offers of economic aid. But his theme seemed dated in lands that have been independent for more than ten years. At a banquet in Calcutta he snapped, "I don't think all of you understand us correctly when we manifest a certain hotheadedness against the colonialists. Just as you don't understand us, neither can we understand you Indians. For so many ages you have been...
Though the field marshal not long ago declared himself "not interested in personal power; I would rather retire and enjoy myself," Pakistanis last week saw signs that, unlike Burma's General Ne Win, who seems really to shrink from publicity, Good Soldier Ayub more and more enjoys basking in the role of his nation's savior...
Died. Countess Mountbatten of Burma (nee the Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley), 58, aristocratic English beauty who traded her famous gowns for nursing garb at the outbreak of World War II and has worked for the Red Cross ever since, as the last Vicereine of India won the affection of India's impatient nationalists; in her sleep; in Jesselton, North Borneo...
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). NBC gets its own cameras into action to follow Ike through Brazil and Argentina, also shows Nikita Khrushchev in India, Burma, Indonesia...