Word: kachin
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...Chou left Rangoon for home, the Burmese army delivered a farewell token of its own: it stormed into headquarters of a Red guerrilla band in Kachin state, less than 50 miles from the Red China border, and killed a couple of Chou's top-ranking agents in Burma...
...intelligence officer. On previous assignments, Bureau Chief Bob Neville picked up some Hindustani and Chinese (to top off his childhood Oklahoma Cherokee vocabulary), learned Italian when he was World War II boss of Stars & Stripes's Mediterranean edition. Dean Brelis came to Rome equipped with Greek and fluent Kachin, a language which he learned in two years with Kachin tribesmen while operating behind the Japanese lines with an OSS detachment in Burma...
...three judges filed in, took their places on the bench. Seagrave remained standing. One of the judges began reading the tribunal's verdict: Charge No. 1, that Seagrave had given aid and comfort to the State's enemies by having tea with a Kachin rebel leader, allowing the rebels to play football on hospital grounds-not guilty; charge No. 2, that he had written a letter to facilitate the rebels' arrest of a government commissioner-guilty; charge No. 3, that he had given medical help to rebels-guilty. Said the judge: "We must take a serious view...
...prosecution witness, Colonel Khum Nawng, commander of the First Emergency Kachin Rifles, testified that Seagrave was plainly displeased when government forces reoccupied Namhkam and that the "doctor's attitude indicated that he had sympathies with Naw Seng." Khum Nawng solemnly told the court that he considered Seagrave a rebel sympathizer because the doctor never smiled...
...Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...