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Inevitably, Aung Gyi's gradualism annoyed Ne Win, a soldier who is no Communist but has vowed to socialize Burma as quickly as possible. Aung Gyi earned the enmity of Brigadier Tin Pe, a Marxist theorist and a key member of the Revolutionary Council. For months, Tin Pe pressed for a faster switchover to state control; Aung Gyi's departure means that Tin Pe has finally...
Through the grey, smoke-stained wreckage he poked. "I recognize that tie," he said. "And that dress. That's Bob Pe-gram's tie, and that dress belonged to his wife Nancy." Years before, as a youth on his first date, Allen had taken Nancy out. He moved on. Here was a pair of children's wooden Dutch shoes, there a few color slides of castles in Germany, some gay apparel, a brochure about Strat-'ford-on-Avon, a movie camera, a green Michelin guide to Paris, a little girl's dress, picture postcards from...
Other advantages claimed for ANC: elimination of dialing errors caused by sound-alike exchange names such as MItchell and MUtual; no more confusion over dialing PA for PEnnsylvania instead of PE; elimination of letters themselves from dials, making them easier to use; the possibility of worldwide direct dialing, even to countries with exotic alphabets. Says Leland B. Lindberg, American Telephone & Telegraph spokesman: "This is the least undesirable way of increasing combinations...
...ZARO PEÑA, 61, Secretary General of the Cuban Labor Confederation (C.T.C.). A mulatto tobacco worker who was born in Havana and joined the Communist Party in 1930, Peña called a Havana convention of workers' organizations from all over Cuba in 1939 to form the C.T.C. For eight uninterrupted years, Peña and his fellow Communists controlled the confederation. But in 1947 anti-Communist Labor Minister Carlos Prío Socorrás began a campaign to oust Peña and his fellow Reds from control of Cuba's labor movement...
...Peña fell from power and wandered through the fringes of the Communist world-touching in Mexico (1953) and Moscow (1957)-until Castro took power in 1959 and Peña could return to take control of the C.T.C...