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...Playbill, she says that she strings beads and likes old shoes, but does not mention where she was born. In the Playbill for Wholesale, she said that she was born in Madagascar and reared in Rangoon. It was easy enough to believe. After two martinis and an expense-account steak, Barbra's Pharaonic profile and scarab eyes suggest the Aswan High Dam, Nefertiti, and the whole Afro-Asian bit. Some minor poets have even brooded over her fathomless Mesopotamian stare, as if her unique countenance could only have developed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates. In truth, however...
...headlong into instant socialism, further dislocating a society racked by civil strife. In his two years in power, Ne Win has nationalized all banks, taken 70% of trade out of private hands. Two weeks ago, soldiers in battle dress invaded and seized more than 3,000 wholesale stores in Rangoon. Meanwhile, upwards of 2,500 political prisoners are behind bars-paradoxically including many Communists. Half a dozen insurgent guerrilla bands, two of them Communist, roam the hinterlands...
...Rangoon, Burma...
...prove he had civilian support somewhere, Ne Win had army trucks pick up some 20,000 workers for a "spontaneous" rally in Rangoon. At that point the students went into action, led an assault on the rally, throwing stones, ripping up placards and setting one army truck afire to shouts of, "We don't want this government!" When Ne Win ordered the closing down of Rangoon university last week, the students, led by leftist agitators, barricaded the gates and staged a sit-in. Bulldozers ordered out to smash the barricades were beaten back with hurled stones, and fire hoses...
...shoddy, Khan dressed his stewardesses in fetching shalwar pantaloons, improved the service and the food. One of the few world-airline chiefs who can fly his own jets -and sometimes does-Khan has increased PIA's fleet to 20 planes and extended routes until they now stretch from Rangoon to New York. But he is proudest of PIA's vital role in linking Pakistan's divided nation-separated by 1,000 miles of India-and in bringing the advantage of modern transportation to a backward land. "Just think," he says: "many of the farmers flying...