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...first President of the Union of Burma from 1948 to 1952, hereditary leader of the Shan tribe, and thought by Burma's military to be a key man behind the Shan separatist movement; he was arrested in last March's coup, when troops surrounded his rambling Rangoon mansion and shot to death his 17-year-old son; of a heart attack; while under detention in an army camp outside Rangoon...
Once they have attained wealth or fame, most alumni like to do something nice for their alma mater. Not so Burma's military strongman, General Ne Win, an alumnus of Rangoon University, who last week handed his old school a painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary...
General Ne Win decided to dynamite the Student Union after two days of rioting in Rangoon. The riots were triggered by a government order confining students to their dormitories every night after 8 o'clock. But student unrest has been growing all month as Ne Win urgently pushed his idea of a single party to encompass the entire nation. Of the three major political parties in Burma, only the pro-Peking Communist National United Front enthusiastically responded,*obviously because it hopes to dominate the single party. The country's two democratic-socialist parties oppose the plan...
Died. Tin Maung ("Tinny") Thant, 21, only son of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, a onetime sociology student at Manhattan's Hunter College; of brain injuries after falling off a swerving bus; in Rangoon, Burma...
...Turkey, only one newspaper even put the news on Page One: some ignored it completely. Radio Iran approved the test resumption. There were no demonstrations in Buddhist Burma, but the Rangoon Guardian said that the nuclear race now "endangers mankind with annihilation." In the Philippines, apathetic reaction was summed up by citizens who asked: "Where's Christmas Island...