Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months ago, the board's majority recommended a return to parliamentary democracy and a "four-legged" economic system that would include a private sector, cooperatives and joint private-public ventures, as well as state-run enterprises. It also recommended more autonomy for Burma's hill tribes and other minorities, which constitute 25% of the population...
Like their counterparts in other Southeast-Asian states, Burma's hill people resent being ruled by a lowland majority. Rebel organizations operate in the mountainous regions, and China has exploited discontent among the hill people as an inexpensive way of making mischief for the Rangoon government. Ne Win himself earlier this month admitted that his army had lost 133 men during the first eight months of this year in skirmishes provoked, he said, by "Burmese Communists." In the Pegu Yoma mountains north of Rangoon, on the other hand, the Burmese army has scored heavy gains against the "White Flag...
...Committee composed of coaches and friends of Bill LaCroix, who died from injuries suffered while serving on the carrier Bunker Hill, chose Reynolds. The award is given for enthusiasm, sportsmanship, and loyalty...
...poems he read were from The Spring Hill Mine Disaster Versus the Pill or Trout Fishing in America, Brautigan's two major collections. Most of the poems hadn't been published. Few were longer than three or four lines. One poem, with a complex/compound sentence as its title, was one word long...
...offensive threat can't nearly match the Dowling-Hill combination that confronted Harvard last fall. But Harvard can't match its offensive power of a year ago either. Its third-place ranking in total offense in the league is misleading, since a majority of the yardage was picked up in statistical romps over Penn and Columbia...