Word: namhkam
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...country near China, there supervising the treatment of some 17,000 patients yearly despite his own ill health (TB, dysentery, bubonic plague, beriberi) and a shoestring $75,000 annual budget, part of which came from his best-selling books (Burma Surgeon, Burma Surgeon Returns); of a heart attack; in Namhkam, Burma...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS 10-11 p.m.).* The Story of Gordon Seagrave, M.D., the "Burma Surgeon," told again with films made on location in Namhkam...
...observers found the court proceedings viciously slaphappy. Brigadier Lazum Tang testified that Missionary Seagrave refused to shake hands with him when government troops reoccupied Namhkam. Three Burmese nurses testified that Seagrave once referred to the government army as "a pack of dogs...
Prosecutor Aung reviewed events leading to Dr. Seagrave's Aug. 15 arrest at his Baptist missionary hospital in the foothills near the China-Burma border. The assistant attorney general told how Captain Naw Seng, a leader of the Karen rebels, raided and occupied Namhkam. Aung said that Seagrave attended a dinner in honor of the rebel leader and permitted Naw Seng's forces free access to the hospital...
...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...