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Ostensibly Chou was in Rangoon to ratify the settlement of the Sino-Burmese border dispute, which he and former Burmese Premier U Nu worked out recently. This guaranteed that China would relinquish her claims to the Wa States in return for Burma's surrender of three Kachin villages annexed by Burma in the days of British rule. The Kachin villagers are ardently opposed to this plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: A Little Discourtesy | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...Anybody who goes for barter deals is out of his mind," said Burma's ex-Premier U Nu-and he should know. Burma's Rangoon docks were still overflowing with the bartered Iron Curtain cement it could not use (TIME, May 21). Originally Burma thought that it had at least got a good price for its surplus rice-only to find that the Soviet Union was upping the prices of the goods it sent in exchange. All this was demoralizing enough. Last week Burma came face to face with another unsettling discovery: it really had no surplus rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Bad Swap | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Limited Invasion. Last week Rangoon's leading daily Nation broke the story that Chinese Communist troops had moved into Burma along a 500-mile front running from Putao in Kachin State down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Neighborly Incursion | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks by monsoon rains (TIME, May 21). Most insulting of all, the Russians and Chinese began selling off their Burmese rice in Burma's own best markets. Said U Nu bitterly last month: "Anybody who goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Towards the West | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Skipper Geib and his six-man crew on the Fleetwood played it cozy all the way. Geib stayed to leeward of the sloop Rangoon, took warning when squalls hit her and she heeled over, had ample time to douse his own spinnaker. Never for a moment did he really stop racing. With his light hull and yawl rig, Nick Geib could hoist plenty of canvas, and the race was a spinnaker run most of the way. He never hesitated to use that tricky tactic, downwind tacking. "We like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Geib's Jibe | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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