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About 1,300 political prisoners (including former Premier U Nu) are held in jail or under house arrest...
...General Ne Win and the army took over for the second time, and U Nu remains under house arrest. The wildly socialist military regime has been running the country into the ground, but there is no evidence that Buddhists could do better. Still, the Buddhists remain the government's only effective opposition. Recently, orange-and yellow-robed monks stormed and wrecked the printing plant of a pro-government newspaper. Ne Win and the Buddhist leaders have set a Dec. 15 meeting to air their differences...
...University Committee on Discrimination in Fraternities ordered in 1962 that local fraternities either eliminate the discriminatory clause from their national charters within a "reasonable time" or withdraw from the national organizations. The Brown chapter of Sigma Nu, whose national charter contains discriminatory provisions, became independent voluntarily last week. Phi Delta Theta will follow suit in December...
Brown has not been alone in protesting fraternity discrimination. The Stanford chapter of Sigma Nu dropped its national affiliation in 1962, after joining the Brown unit in opposing the discrimination clause. Recently, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Tufts, and the University of Rhode Island have decided to allow chapters to obtain local waivers of a discrimination clause in a national constitution...
...M.I.T. chapter of Sigma Nu will remain openly discriminatory. "There are a lot of Southerners in the house who don't particularly want Negroes," Frank DeRemer, lieutenant-commander of the chapter, explained this week...