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Ever since General Ne Win tossed bumbling Premier U Nu out of office last March, the only thing that has kept him from rushing headlong into a program of industrial nationalization and farm collectivization has been the influence of tough, handsome Brigadier Aung Gyi. Last week the brakes were off. After a long feud with leftist members in the 17-man Revolutionary Council, Aung Gyi "most respectfully" asked Strongman Ne Win "to relieve me of the various duties to which I have been assigned...
...September Strauss's prospects lost their glow. Before the final returns were in for national elections, Strauss referred to Adenauer in the past tense, angled with the Chancellor's opponents to pres sure him from office. During a U.S. trip, he plumped to make NATO a "fourth nu clear power" (enabling West Germany to get atomic arms), despite Washington's objections. Adenauer, visiting President Kennedy at the time, said nary a word to support his Defense Minister...
...painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations...
Sand Pagodas. General Ne Win's attitude toward Communism is somewhat ambivalent. In 1958, after he took over the government from mystical Premier U Nu, the general cracked down on the Reds. Two years ago, he stepped aside when U Nu overwhelmingly won a general election, but the Buddhist Premier ran the country so inefficiently and eccentrically (once he issued detailed orders for constructing 60,000 pagodas of sand in a single day) that Ne Win bounced back to power in a coup d'etat last March. He dissolved the Parliament and Supreme Court, and rules through...
Recently, Burma has been beset again by a faltering economy and sharpened political tensions. Heavy floods last fall wiped out 800,000 acres of revenue-producing rice just as the nation was about to embark on an ambitious industrial development plan; U Nu's Union Party elected five left-wingers to key executive posts; ethnic minority groups such as Shans and Karens were demanding greater self-determination, threatening national unity. Last week, reading the signs of a "vastly deteriorating situation," Ne Win staged a lightning-quick coup, seized U Nu and about 40 other government leaders. Despite the rumble...