Word: burma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominence. With heroin falling out of fashion, the number of hardcore American users has dropped from a peak of 700,000 a decade ago to 500,000 today. The slippage in this key market coincided with a 1979 drought in the Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. The area has long produced much of the world's supply of poppies, from which opium and heroin are derived. The resulting rise in prices only accelerated the switch to cocaine...
...remember the bloody riots that followed his rise to power in 1980. His efforts to exert greater control over the nation's industries failed, though he is given credit for reviving the economy and building South Korea's diplomatic ties, most notably with Third World countries like Burma and Sri Lanka...
...friends and classmates, those Etonians who were going on to do great things in government and the arts. So he chose the course his father had taken and left the country; he joined the Imperial Indian Police and was dispatched to keep order among the colonial subjects in Burma...
...returned to England after five years and resigned his commission. "He had changed," his friend Jacintha recalls. "He seemed more aloof, an unhappy sort of stranger. Whatever happened to him in Burma must have embittered him very much." Blair described the feeling he brought home as "an intolerable sense of guilt." He had been a petty tyrant in the service of what he saw as a vast system of exploitation. He could recognize in the flogged Burmese troublemakers a likeness to himself as a schoolboy, whipped and cowed by the same imperious forces. A childhood conviction had been confirmed...
...will hold 1984 spending to 1983 levels. Board Member Suh Sang Mok, a senior researcher at the Korea Development Institute, predicted that, even with the new austerity program, his country would have 8% growth in 1984. He was optimistic about the government's ability to recover from the Burma bombing. "The policymakers who replaced the old Cabinet share the same philosophy," he said, "so our present economic directions will be maintained...