Word: burma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade in one way or another. But the effort has been frustrating. Many governments are not particularly receptive to U.S. pleas for cooperation and, as the Cabinet Committee report wryly observes, they are "regularly and skillfully exploited by the illicit international trafficker." The report unhappily notes that in Burma, where the annual opium harvest comes to a hefty 400 tons, the narcotics trade is "not viewed with great alarm." Authorities in Pakistan prefer to act as if their country's opium output, which runs as high as 170 tons a year, is really "quite small...
...according to a source in Chiangmai, the station will be built and manned by the Americans. It will be a type of aircraft surveillance system, its location affording a radar "view" throughout the region with only two blind sports--one behind a slightly higher mountain in Burma and another behind Chiang Dao Mountain in Thailand...
...RELATIONSHIP between communalism and governmental authority in South Viet Nam today is thus almost precisely the opposite of what it is in most other Southeast Asian countries. In Thailand, Burma, Malaysia and elsewhere the ethnic and religious minorities are the principal sources of opposition to the political system. In South Viet Nam, in contrast, the religious and ethnic minorities are centers of support for the system, and the relatively unorganized rural majority--the ethnic Vietnamese with Confucian, Buddhist and animist religious beliefs--is the principal source of alienation and disaffection...
...Strings. Bangladesh, whose existence as an independent nation had previously been acknowledged only by India and Bhutan, was formally recognized last week by East Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Mongolia and Burma. Pakistan angrily served notice that it would sever diplomatic relations with all nations that did so-a policy that will surely prove untenable as more countries follow suit. Britain, which has already promised aid to Bangladesh through the U.N., is expected to provide recognition in a few weeks. Despite the urgings of Senators Edward Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey that the U.S. recognize Bangladesh, the White House last week said that...
...Brooklyn boy whose pink cheeks earned him the nickname Rosie, O'Donnell was a light, fleet West Point halfback before obtaining his commission in 1928. He led B-17 Flying Fortresses defending American positions in the Philippines early in World War II, later evacuated Allied troops from Burma and airlifted supplies "over the hump" of the Himalayas. After receiving his first general's star in 1944, O'Donnell led the first land-based B-29 raids on Japan-which six years later became his headquarters when he was chief of the Far East Air Forces Bomber Command...