Word: nu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noisy NU fans in the IAB began to smell blood. With the score 56 to 51, the Dogs ripped off eight straight points in short order. Center Fran Ryan sank a pair of easy ones, and scrappy Jerry Phillips stole the ball twice and scored on layups as the Northeastern full-court press began to click...
...addition to the Ryan twins, the Huskies will start last season's top NU scorer, averaging 17.2; forward Tom Martin, 6 ft. 5 in., averaging 10.0 and diminutive guard Norm Hoffman, whom Coach Dick Dukeshire put into the line up to give the team more speed. (They like to run) And, Northeastern has plenty of elongated talent on the bench...
Nationalization. Energetic Dictator Ne Win, who is part-Chinese, in 1958 pressured Parliament into making him Premier in place of dreamy, inefficient but popular U Nu. After ruling for 17 months, Ne Win permitted national elections. U Nu won an easy victory and proved even more ineffectual than before. In March 1962, Ne Win jailed U Nu and most of his Cabinet, abolished Parliament, imposed censorship, and began to rule through a 17-man Revolutionary Council of army officers. Leaving nothing to chance, Ne Win named himself leader of the council, President of Burma, Minister for Defense, Finance and Revenue...
Opposition. Though Ne Win is conceded to be honest and hardworking, easygoing Burmese long for the good old good-for-nothing government of U Nu, whose photo is still hawked on the streets and outsells that of Ne Win by a wide margin. One opposition leader, U Ba Swe, called on Ne Win "to retreat from the brink of disaster for the sake of the nation," and the ex-Ambassador to the U.S., U Win, demanded a return to parliamentary democracy. Both were packed off to "protective custody," along with nine other dissenters from instant socialism...
Presumably to show he is not a total tyrant, Ne Win released three former Cabinet ministers (but not ex-Premier U Nu) from house arrest. Unless the army stages a coup, Ne Win may muddle along indefinitely. "It's not the Burmese way to man the barricades," explained a Rangoon educator. "Given our plentiful food supplies and the passivity of the people, it's possible for someone to misrule Burma for perhaps a decade before incurring true wrath...