Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the exodus is the fact that Strongman Premier Ne Win, driving pell-mell along his "Burmese road to Socialism," has nationalized all small businesses, banks and warehouses, denied trading licenses to aliens, and prohibited non-Burmese from taking government jobs. Ne Win's edicts struck particularly hard at the Indians, who have become the nation's sharpest shopkeepers, but have been reluctant to take out Burmese citizenship...
...Burma's treatment of its Indian minority an isolated case. In Ceylon, where nearly 700,000 Indian plantation workers and tradesmen live as "stateless persons," the regime has launched a "Ceylonization of trade" campaign. And what that might very well mean is yet another mass exodus of Indians...
...Although I am one of the young people who made the "exodus," I feel that the citizens of Hazleton should be congratulated for their efforts. Your article is a fine tribute to the people of my home town. I am proud of them...
...often when a good book or play becomes a movie, the script writers fail to see that they have good things in front of their noses; passionate (and pointless) adaptation turned such solid novels as Exodus and Advise and Consent into mediocre cinema. Fortunately, the men who took Gore Vidal's recent hit play The Best Man and made it into a movie had the sense to leave well enough alone. As a result, they have put together a terrific film...
...persecution. Alike, they say that border police systematically relieve them of whatever money and jewels they have left. On both sides, fugitives protest that the only safe way across the frontier is by greasing the palms of unscrupulous fixers. Yet their governments piously gloss over the fact that the exodus is in both directions. India talks only of Hindus fleeing Pakistani atrocities, Pakistan of Moslems fleeing Indian hordes...