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...have helped introduce the drink to newcomers, including bartenders, "who use the recipes for inspiration." That's particularly vital in the U.S., where mixologists in trendy bars have a huge influence on sales. "People love the complexity it adds to cocktails and mixed drinks," says Audrey Saunders, owner of Pegu Club, in New York City's SoHo district...
...exploited discontent among the hill people as an inexpensive way of making mischief for the Rangoon government. Ne Win himself earlier this month admitted that his army had lost 133 men during the first eight months of this year in skirmishes provoked, he said, by "Burmese Communists." In the Pegu Yoma mountains north of Rangoon, on the other hand, the Burmese army has scored heavy gains against the "White Flag" Communists and virtually controls the region for the first time in 20 years...
Catholic missionaries made a fruitless attempt to acquire converts in Burma during the 16th century, but Christianity did not really gain a foothold until 1722, when two Barnabite priests from Italy started preaching in Ava and Pegu. The first Protestant missionaries landed in 1807. Six years later came the great American Baptist Adoniran Judson, "the Apostle of Burma." Born in Massachusetts, he spent 37 years in Burma-including 17 months in prison, part of the time in shackles, during the country's 1824-26 war with Britain. It was Judson who first translated the Bible into Burmese. Relatively unsuccessful...
...unfavorable. In the new republic's first year of freedom, no fewer than 40% of Burma's elected M.P.s and their supporters came out in armed revolt against Prime Minister U Nu. Trade, commerce and government revenues slumped; the civil service fell away, demoralized. In police HQ, Pegu Province, a weary superintendent checked his dossier: "Of 21 stations in my district, I hold only six. The other 15 are held by five kinds of insurgents." In faraway London, Winston Churchill, then in opposition, rumbled...
Nixon's most improbable and convincing exhibition of U.S. campaign methods was carried off before a ruined pagoda in Pegu (pop. 21,000), an ancient Burmese town 45 miles north of Rangoon. A crowd of a thousand Burmans awaited him in Pegu. Among them were a hundred Communist demonstrators carrying placards, one quaintly inscribed in English. "Go Back Warmonger, Valet of Wall Street." A sound truck blared anti-American propaganda. Nixon on arrival walked up to the nearest card carrier and said, "I notice these cards are addressed to Mr. Nixon. I am Nixon, and I'm glad...