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...gradually backed off from his old aloof position as a 200% neutral. He now seeks aid wherever he can find it. A Russian mission went to Burma a few months ago and discussed the possibility of a sizable Soviet aid commitment. When Premier Eisaku Sato visited Rangoon earlier this month, Ne Win made a pitch for stepped-up payments of Japanese reparations. German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger goes to Burma later this month, and Ne Win is expected to ask him for increased German aid. There are also reports in Rangoon about big shipments of U.S. counterinsurgency weaponry...
...with as many as 500,000 chanting and marching anti-Chinese demonstrators a day. The brawling began after General Ne Win closed two Chinese schools for exces sive Mao-think in the curriculum and Chinese students hit the streets in protest, setting off the anti-Chinese explosion. Peking accused Rangoon of instigating an "outrage of white terror" against the Chinese, for the first time came out in full, open support of the more militant of Burma's two Com munist parties...
...India two weeks ago filed into their plane wearing conspicuous bandages on their heads. Expelled in reprisal for Chinese violence against two Indian diplomats, the Chinese said they had been beaten in New Delhi. Last week two Burmese climbed over a back wall at China's embassy in Rangoon and knifed an economic-aid specialist to death...
...Burma, the outburst started after Chinese embassy aides started passing out Mao Tse-tung badges and little Red bibles of Mao-think. The government banned both the badges and the bibles, and a crowd of Chinese students in Rangoon retaliated by taking their teachers as hostages and beating up newsmen. The Burmese struck back by sacking Chinese-owned shops. Burma's military ruler, General Ne Win, declared martial law in Rangoon, and his men fired into mobs which had made three assaults on the Chinese embassy. In turn, Peking denounced the riots as inspired by a "militarist fascist rule...
Last week Time Correspondent Louis Kraar wound up a tour of the capital and countryside, and found Burma a nation that has effectively buried its old colonial past but lost something of itself in the process. "Rangoon, once a great British-style city of banks and trading companies, now moves at a languid 'people's pace,' " reported Kraar. "The grand old Victorian buildings, now grubby and ghostlike, hover over wide, almost empty streets. Identical green and white signboards over nearly every shop proclaim 'People's Store'-though the Burmese people find very little indeed...