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...Shans and Karens were demanding greater self-determination, threatening national unity. Last week, reading the signs of a "vastly deteriorating situation," Ne Win staged a lightning-quick coup, seized U Nu and about 40 other government leaders. Despite the rumble of tanks and heavily armed troops who patrolled Rangoon streets, most Burmese went about their normal affairs with typical good nature. But there was doubt that Burmese democracy, having collapsed twice in 3½ years, would soon be restored...
When the curtain goes up, U Po Lone is dallying with his mistress in a Rangoon pad. Before the curtain falls, he has been shot. His sad story is shot through with black-marketeering, opium smoking, booze, bribes, and prostitution...
...Rangoon to return a 1955 state visit from Burma's Prime Minister U Nu, Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 75, embarked upon a program unlikely to win cheers from rigidly orthodox religious leaders back in Jerusalem. Once the demands of protocol had been discharged, the patriarch of the Jewish homeland intended to indulge a longtime fascination with Buddhism by making a ten-day contemplative retreat at the home of U Nu, himself a Buddhist monk. Meantime, livening up the diplomatic garden parties, Ben-Gurion wowed his hosts by showing up attired like a potbellied pixy in Burma...
...their racial similarities and on large colonies of local Chinese. While Russian diplomats and technicians try to live in American-style comfort, Peking's agents sleep 40 in a barracks, eat native food. Avoiding the Soviets' impractical showcase gifts (example: an outlandish hotel on the outskirts of Rangoon), the Red Chinese have promised to build the Burmese a mill to make paper from bamboo, erected small textile and plywood plants in Cambodia...
After Pantanaw National High School, U Thant attended Rangoon University, but dropped out in his second year when his father's death left him responsible for supporting his family. He returned to teach English and history at his old high school, at 21 passed his teacher's exams ahead of all other candidates in Burma. At college and later on the staff at Pantanaw, U Thant became a lifelong friend of U Nu; both were prolific spare-time journalists, specializing in spirited anticolonial articles...