Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immune to chemical insecticides, scientists are developing other weapons against them. Like sex. By encouraging the mating of mosquitoes that are incapable of producing offspring, a West German scientist has wiped out the disease-bearing mosquito population of a Burmese village. And, the attraction that proved so fatal in Burma, he reported to a recent health conference in Washington, can have similar results elsewhere...
...incompatible pairings consisted of a strain from Fresno, Calif., and a Burmese strain that transmitted filariasis, a tropical disease that causes chills, fever and headaches and can lead to elephantiasis. Last March, after breeding a host of strong male mosquitoes from insects caught around Fresno, he flew them to Burma and released 5,000 a day in the isolated village of Okpo. "Those huge males," Laven says, "were quicker and stronger than the indigenous breed." The Fresno males immediately began outdoing their Okpo counterparts in mating with Okpo females-which promptly began laying infertile eggs...
Headed Off at the Pass. If in Japan, Ceylon and Viet Nam the Buddhists are on the march, in Communist China and Burma they have been headed off at the pass. Peking has assiduously emasculated Buddhism in China, emptying it of its religious content while retaining its temples as shrines to the "cultural creativity of the Chinese people under the feudal empires of the past." General Ne Win of Burma has used arrest and intimidation to undercut the young monks who crave political power, at the same time borrowing Buddhist principles to shape his "Burmese Way to Socialism...
Perhaps the most fundamental motif of China's foreign policy has been a concern to secure and defend her borders. When able to attain this end by peaceful and diplomatic means, as in the case of border treaties with Burma and Pakistan, China has done so. But when foreign armies crossed the 38th parallel in Korea and headed for China's Yalu border, Peking ordered its army to stop that threat. And when India refused to allow give-and-take negotiations about a disputed border, the Chinese army took what Peking considered to be her share of the disputed territory...
...reformer and that of nationalist hero who drove out the foreigner--as in Yugoslavia, China, Algeria and Vietnam. Where guerrillas have been unable to capture the banner of nationalism--either because of ethnic problems, as in Malaya, or because of the absence of a foreign invader, as in Burma and the Philippines--they have failed...