Word: kachins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burma's Dictator Ne Win, 52, must hate getting up in the morning. What he rises to face each day is a nation of 22 million people plagued by at least five separate rebellions, ranging from the Kachin tribesmen, who want autonomy, to the Red Flag Communists, who are so fanatical that they think even China's Mao Tse-tung is "too moderate." Burmese businessmen bitterly resent the nationalization of industry; peasants grumble at the collectivization of agriculture; Buddhist monks protest that government expropriation of the rich robs them of endowments. Ne Win's latest enemies...
...hell, see. Just a handful of G.I.s and some fawning Burmese out there in the Kachin hills, and a Japanese peeping from behind every other orchid. Fortunately, the enemy looked like monkeys and were awfully dumb. U.S. Army Captain Frank Sinatra was running the show, a Tommy gun in one hand and a bottle in the other. What a man. They called him "the Abe Lincoln of North Burma." Back in Calcutta on leave, Frankie met Gina Lollobrigida, who decided he was the biggest thing to hit those parts since Errol Flynn. "Say," said Frank, "you're put together...