Word: burma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Within seven days of the signing of any Viet Nam cease-fire agreement, Singapore, Thailand and other nations belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (which also includes Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines) would call a meeting to which they would invite both Viet Nams, Cambodia, Laos and Burma. "We want them in the association," says Thai Deputy Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhawan, "because we want to see work start on reconstructing the damage done...
...author of On the Road, the Jack that journalism built into the king of the Beat Generation and the Zen terror of the transcontinental blacktop, sat passively in the passenger's seat and watched his life, reflected in the American landscape, go by like so many flaking Burma Shave signs. "I'm doomed to these universal watchfulnesses," he wrote, though not as effortlessly as Kerouac readers were once led to believe. Author Charters dispels the popular misconception that On the Road leaped spontaneously out of Kerouac's head and onto the 120-ft. roll of teletype paper...
Blair went to Eton, had an undistinguished but adequate record, and, needing a career, went to Burma, at the time a part of the British Indian Empire. For five years he was an Assistant Superintendent in the Indian Imperial Police. He came back to Europe and for another five years tried to become a writer. He became a writer, and became George Orwell when Down and Out in Paris and London appeared in 1933. In making that transformation he escapes from this book, which restricts itself to the unknown Eric Blair...
Peter Stansky and William Abrahams follow Blair's life in considerable detail. Their attempts to convey the atmosphere of St. Cyprian's preparatory school, Eton, and Burma show they researched and wrote their account carefully. But that does very little to remedy their focus on the peripheral facets of Blair-Orwell's life...
Typically, the big-time operators deal in more than just drugs. After they deliver their opium to smugglers on the Thai border, Lo's huge caravans?often 200 mules and 200 porters, guarded by 600 troops?frequently return to Burma with contraband ranging from trucks and airplane parts to bolts of cloth and auto engines. Lo, says one U.S. official, "doesn't go empty-handed either...