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...more of the same at the next port of call. But Burma unexpectedly asked him to delay his arrival two days, until its national independence celebration was over. On his last visit to Burma in 1955, when his neutralist friend U Nu was Premier, crowds thronged the streets of Rangoon beneath banners that proclaimed "Long Life to Great Tito!" When he arrived in Rangoon last week, after seven days at sea, the atmosphere had changed. There were no banners, and it was obvious that the new military regime of Premier General Ne Win had not asked the crowds to turn...
Setting a suggestively useful precedent for unhorsed Asian statesmen, ex-Premier U Nu of Burma, who recently turned over his governmental burdens to General Ne Win (TIME, Nov. 10), donned saffron robes, humbly appeared with shaven head for his ordination as a Buddhist priest in Rangoon...
...lived on and with which they currently seem to be disenchanted is also the dream of those nations occupying the grey land stretching from Iran to Korea. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are attributes of the good life in Backwash, U.S.A., as well as in Cairo and Rangoon...
After picking a Cabinet of nonpolitical civil servants, Ne Win put his troops to work, shoveling garbage from Rangoon's filthy streets, cleaning the boulevards, repairing water pipes, filling in potholed roads. Old residents were amazed that suddenly the streets were no longer filled with prowling packs of wild dogs and the usual flocks of scavenger birds. To help bring down the soaring cost of living, General Ne Win ordered Burma's navy to divert its patrol boats from their coastal duties and send them out as a fishing fleet...
...spring. Some, noting that the switch deprived Nu of control over electoral machinery, held that Nu is now on his way out as a political leader. "If the initiative for turning over the government really did come from Nu, he must be rated a statesman," said one observer in Rangoon. "If not, he would still rate as a diplomatist for succeeding in keeping the word 'coup' out of announcements of this week's events...