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...Suffering People." India's new posture stiffened spines throughout Southeast Asia. In Burma the government signed a seven-year treaty with the autonomous and Chinese-infiltrated Shan and Kachin states of Burma that would for the first time put the protection of their borders with Red China under army control. The U.S. promised and prepared to deliver airborne aid to the threatened kingdom of Laos (see below). Next week Nehru will confer with Pakistan's strongman, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, who is urging a united defense of the subcontinent. At last Indians are beginning to see China...
...such Western innovations as rock 'n' roll ("dance of mad persons with chronic diarrhea"). Western ballroom dancing ( "couple-rubbing exhibitions" ) and beauty contests ("degradation of Burmese womanhood"). Last month the government destroyed opium crops in a northern district, warned that other opium growers in the Kachin and Shan states would be the next to suffer...
...There is the thrill of anticipation, the rapture of possession, satiety, neglect, then utter boredom as the bike rusts untouched in a kitchen corner. A new baby brother is expected, but the death of great-grandmother is more awesome. With compassionate wisdom, the stepfather assures the shaken boy: "We shan't die, you especially, that I'll guarantee...
...SHAN, S.J. Chutung, Formosa...
...shan't be using a belt with our suit...