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...Politician-Publisher Kukrit Pramoj 13 years ago took a respite from statecraft and journalism for a brief fling at the movies. In the film version of The Ugly American, Kukrit got surprisingly good reviews for his portrayal of the democratic Prime Minister of a mythical Southeast Asia nation called Sarkhan. The movie Prime Minister was besieged and almost overthrown by Communists, largely because of a meddling U.S. ambassador (played by Marlon Brando...
...SARKHAN by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. 307 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...cunning little fable is used by William I. Lederer and the late Eugene Burdick as a kind of summing-up of their latest oversimplified, sometimes fatuous but, as usual, highly readable attack on U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Returning after seven years to the ancient and mythical kingdom of Sarkhan, where they first discovered The Ugly American, they find the usual ragtag group of bumbling, arrogant and stupid Americans. The Communists, of course, are as smart as ever. Even smarter. For, instead of being satisfied slowly to win over the Sarkhanese masses because the Americans are too lazy to learn...
Died. Eugene Leonard Burdick, 46, bestselling novelist and University of California political science professor, a former Rhodes scholar who methodically ground out Cassandra-like tales of political science fiction (The Ugly American and its forthcoming sequel, Sarkhan, both written with William J. Lederer; Fail-Safe, written with Harvey Wheeler; and The 480); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in San Diego...
...Ugly American. Ambassador Brando, in a Ronald Colman mustache and a Fred Astaire top hat, matches ideologies with a native revolutionist in faraway South Sarkhan. Most of the Americans involved in this fanciful adaptation of the Burdick-Lederer novel are so lacking in charm that it is hard to decide just who is the ugliest...