Word: rangoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week LIFE Correspondent Elmer Lower cabled from Rangoon: "Experienced foreign observers here say that the Burmese government has improved its position more during the past year than either they or the Burmans believed possible. With the elimination of the Karens in Toungoo and the Communists in Prome (TIME, June 5), the government's campaign approaches being 75% successful...
While he prayed and his soldiers fought, loyal Burmans were combatting rebellion with a third weapon: humor. The Rangoon newspaper Burman recently printed a definition: "A Communist is a man who promises that you'll have no rent to pay and does his best to keep his promises by destroying everything you'd be willing to pay rent for." One rapidly disintegrating group of rebels is called the White Band PVO (People's Volunteer Organization). The surrendered PVO leader, Bo La Yaung, last week toured Rangoon flourishing a chit that read: "Bo La Yaung, having surrendered...
Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...
...along his route, Sherry met TIME and LIFE correspondents, photographers and others-plus, of course, thousands of TIME and LIFE readers. "With one exception," said Sherry, "I didn't feel like a stranger anywhere." That exception was a woman traveler on the plane to Rangoon who wanted to know the name of the company Sherry worked for. "TIME and LIFE," he told her. "My," she said, "you insurance men certainly do get around...
Clothing and books for the PBH drives will be collected simultaneously. The clothing will go to the Salzburg Seminar and the Friends Service Committee, and the books to the universities of Munich and Rangoon. These drives will close Thursday...