Word: burma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holiday spirit apparently did not impress Burma's President Ne Win, 64. Disturbed by noise from the Inya Lake Hotel across from his home in Rangoon, the socialist leader rounded up a trio of military aides armed with submachine guns and barged in on 800 revelers. While stunned guests watched, he then bashed in the band's drums, pushed over some amplifiers and slapped an army officer. Diplomats who were there reported that the Burmese partygoers, who obviously knew a Ne Win situation when they saw it, quickly made for the exits...
Talk about durability. And versatility. And ubiquity. The DC-3 made its maiden flight on Dec. 17, 1935. All told, Douglas Aircraft built more than 10,000 of the planes. Forty years later no fewer than 3,000 of them are still flying as far afield as Burma, Canada and some parts of the U.S. A twin-engine work horse that flew coast to coast in an unheard-of 15 hours in the late 1930s, the DC-3 was the first American aircraft to turn a profit from passengers only. It was also the first to offer heated cabins, soundproofing...
...title refers directly to the war planes that Bengali villagers see flying overhead. More important, the thunder is the sound of the second World War. To the villagers it seems, at first, remote. They speak wonderingly of "the flying ships," trade rumors of Japanese advances on Singapore and Burma, and live very much as they always have, just skirting absolute deprivation. The war seems mysterious and alien. Then the rice starts running...
...testify, a conviction is impossible. Still it is clear to the English community that Merrick has done his job well, and there is no outcry when he manages to have Kumar and his friends imprisoned as political unreliables. The Japanese, after all, have just defeated the English in Burma, the Congress Party has declared a policy of noncooperation with the British war effort, and to the English, most of India seems unreliable...
...more violent but occur on the ocean floor or in remote areas and do no harm. Some add to the long catalogue of destruction. Last week, for example, a 4.7 earthquake rocked lightly populated Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. In July, a 6.8 quake struck Pagan, Burma, destroying or damaging half of the city's historic temples. Within the past several weeks, strong earthquakes struck Oroville, Calif., Mindanao in the Philippines, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia and the southwest Pacific island of Bougainville...