Word: rangoons
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...Harvard fans, the 20-15 Bruin triumph left an empty feeling aftertaste similar to the one you get after spending the night at the Hong Kong drinking Rangoon Rubies. All you want to do the next day is lie in bed and forget...
...holiday spirit apparently did not impress Burma's President Ne Win, 64. Disturbed by noise from the Inya Lake Hotel across from his home in Rangoon, the socialist leader rounded up a trio of military aides armed with submachine guns and barged in on 800 revelers. While stunned guests watched, he then bashed in the band's drums, pushed over some amplifiers and slapped an army officer. Diplomats who were there reported that the Burmese partygoers, who obviously knew a Ne Win situation when they saw it, quickly made for the exits...
Burma is expected to come under increasing pressure from Communist guerrillas exploiting the economic and political troubles of the Ne Win regime. The 10,000 insurgents, active in the opium-rich area bordering China, Laos and Thailand, are capable of launching a major campaign against Rangoon's forces...
...fighting began when Thant's body was being escorted to a modest private burial service in a small family mausoleum in Rangoon's Kyandaw Cemetery. Probably because Thant had been a political ally of Premier U Nu, who was overthrown in a 1962 coup by President Ne Win, the current regime was trying to inter him with a minimum of fanfare. But the city's volatile students, who apparently wanted a more imposing burial site for their distinguished countryman, abducted the body on the way to the mausoleum. Along with antigovernment Buddhist monks, they paraded it through...
...autocratic Premier Ne Win's efforts to reduce their power and influence. Students and workers, unhappy about economic stagnation and the government's repressive policies, are natural allies of the monks. Last June, rioting led by longshoremen and factory workers left at least 22 dead in Rangoon's streets. The latest disturbances were at least as serious. More ominous is the fact that tensions are bound to continue even after the battle for U Thant's body is over...