Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita Khrushchev is a man who likes crowds, and last week in Indonesia he finally found them. In India and Burma, where the touring Communist boss drew relatively sparse turnouts and notably sharp criticism from the newspapers, he had grown progressively more glum and irritable. But as he descended from his silvery Ilyushin-18 turboprop at Djakarta's sun-drenched airport last week, Nikita was met by close to 100,000 people, including brilliantly costumed groups from the outlying islands of the Indonesian nation: pretty girls in sarongs, from Timor; Maduran farmers with rice scythes; barelegged hunters from Borneo...
...Soviet pact became ten years old, it was Johnny-Come-Lately Nikita Khrushchev who had to go to China's rescue. It had been a disastrous year for China: troubles in the communes, the bloody repression of Tibet, Peking's maladroit handling of India, its antagonizing of Burma and Indonesia. It now requires Khrushchev's hardest efforts (he got a smaller hello last week in India than did Eisenhower) to try to retrieve Communism's sagging fortunes in Asia...
...ambitious young cadet in time became the debonair Right Honorable Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.. G.C.V.O., K.C.B., D.S.O. He was a destroyer flotilla skipper in the Mediterranean, later Britain's wartime South East Asia commander, and then Viceroy of India during India's difficult transition to independence. At last, after achieving, like his father before him, the rank of First Sea Lord, he became Britain's first Chief of the Defense Staff...
...months since he and the army took over as the caretakers of chaotic Burma, General Ne Win has proved an odd sort of strongman. He ruled well, but instead of enjoying his power, he grumbled about his sinuses and complained that there was not enough time to play golf any more. Instead of welcoming publicity, he consented to only one press conference, at which he curtly told newsmen to write whatever they pleased, and then walked out. Last week, with the country in better moral, economic and political shape than ever before, some 10 million Burmese went happily to woven...
...spite of their enforced sabbatical, the politicians had not been idle. From the start, ex-Premier U Nu had the advantage. In the most Buddhist of Buddhist nations, he early won the support of Burma's 50,000 Buddhist monks. He promised that his candidates would "merit admission to the higher abode of Nirvana," regretted the corruption and inefficiency that had brought in army rule, and carefully laid out his ballinatsa, a table loaded with fruits and meats for the spirits to dine...