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...wake of the collapse of Saigon's Thieu regime four months ago, North Viet Nam has been emerging as a major Southeast Asian power. When, for example, a mausoleum honoring the late Ho Chi Minh was unveiled during Ha noi's recent independence celebrations, the ceremony was attended by dozens of visiting foreign dignitaries. To assess Southeast Asia's changing geopolitical landscape, Otto Fuerbringer, editor of magazine development at Time Inc. and former managing editor of TIME, toured the region and talked with many of its leaders. His report...
...corridors of one of the world's most uncaring and corrupt bureaucracies. The Duvalier family alone skims at least $6 million a year from the government's revenues-about one-fifth of the country's entire budget-while Jean-Claude recently inaugurated a huge $3 million mausoleum honoring Papa Doc. "We live only in fantasies; reality eludes us," Publisher Dieudonne Fardin recently complained in Haiti's bimonthly Le Petit Samedi Soir. "One comes to the realization that there is an absence of national will to search for solutions to the problems which affect the future...
...Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders stood impassively on the marble Lenin mausoleum overlooking Red Square last week, loudspeakers boomed out the Kremlin's May Day greeting to the Soviet people. It was the supreme holiday of international Communism, yet not a word was uttered to congratulate the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong on their overwhelming victory. Among the placards carried by 100,000 Russian workers on their May 1 march, only one referred -obliquely-to the event: "Fraternal greetings to the heroic Vietnamese people," it read. The Communist Party daily Pravda was a nonchalant...
...fighting began when Thant's body was being escorted to a modest private burial service in a small family mausoleum in Rangoon's Kyandaw Cemetery. Probably because Thant had been a political ally of Premier U Nu, who was overthrown in a 1962 coup by President Ne Win, the current regime was trying to inter him with a minimum of fanfare. But the city's volatile students, who apparently wanted a more imposing burial site for their distinguished countryman, abducted the body on the way to the mausoleum. Along with antigovernment Buddhist monks, they paraded it through...
Angry Crowd. While Thant's family pleaded for the return of the body, the city government promised to build a suitable mausoleum near the renowned Shwe Dagon pagoda. Before an agreement could be reached, however, Burmese troops and police unexpectedly stormed the campus and recovered the body. Their action led to riots throughout the capital. An angry crowd of 3,000 destroyed a police station; the Ministry of Cooperatives and two movie theaters were wrecked. Police opened fire in response. Although the government claimed that nine rioters had been killed, some reports indicated that there were many more dead...