Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also, as he has said, the face of a "heavily doped Chinese illusionist" -a perfect Noel Coward characterization of the sort of facial urbanity one wears to prize-givings. At one dinner party, Earl Mountbatten of Burma actually calculated that Coward had written 27 plays and 281 songs, and Sir Laurence Olivier called him "utterly unspoiled." The Coward eyebrows uncocked a bit, the eyes glanced sideways, and the words hummed forth on the wings of a bee: "That's what you think." He rose to reply to the tributes at a midnight gala in his honor: "I am awfully...
...decline. For years he has effectively closed it off from the outside world, granting visas to tourists and journalists for stays of only 24 hours. Lately, in a general relaxation that included the release of most of his 2,000 political prisoners, he has allowed visitors to remain in Burma for three days instead of only one. After such a visit, TIME Correspondent David Greenway sent this report...
...months ago, the board's majority recommended a return to parliamentary democracy and a "four-legged" economic system that would include a private sector, cooperatives and joint private-public ventures, as well as state-run enterprises. It also recommended more autonomy for Burma's hill tribes and other minorities, which constitute 25% of the population...
Like their counterparts in other Southeast-Asian states, Burma's hill people resent being ruled by a lowland majority. Rebel organizations operate in the mountainous regions, and China has exploited discontent among the hill people as an inexpensive way of making mischief for the Rangoon government. Ne Win himself earlier this month admitted that his army had lost 133 men during the first eight months of this year in skirmishes provoked, he said, by "Burmese Communists." In the Pegu Yoma mountains north of Rangoon, on the other hand, the Burmese army has scored heavy gains against the "White Flag...
Sensing perhaps that the climate was not really changing, U Nu managed to go into exile early this year. After feigning illness and fainting spells, he convinced the government that he needed medical attention abroad. Once out of Burma, he set off on a world tour denouncing the Ne Win regime, then retired to Bangkok to contemplate a return to power. But Ne Win's position with the army appears secure. If he chooses to take Burma farther left, no matter how disastrous the course, he seems strong enough...