Word: toungoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plus $500 for each Japanese plane-bought familiar pleasures: whisky and women. But though the Tigers were all technically civilians, Greg found himself jousting with superiors again. There was the old, retread captain who turned the boys out for a military muster every morning, and the group adjutant in Toungoo who threatened so many of his men with so many courts-martial that Boyington suspected "he must have been at least one jump ahead of a few himself in his military days." There was Chennault himself, who "thought his face was a piece of Ming-dynasty chinaware he was afraid...
Last week LIFE Correspondent Elmer Lower cabled from Rangoon: "Experienced foreign observers here say that the Burmese government has improved its position more during the past year than either they or the Burmans believed possible. With the elimination of the Karens in Toungoo and the Communists in Prome (TIME, June 5), the government's campaign approaches being 75% successful...
Things were looking up a bit in Burma. The government had driven both the two chief rebel forces, the Karens and the White Flag Communists, from their respective strongholds, Toungoo and Prome. Last week the government had one less foe in its many-sided civil war: the White Band PVOs (People's Volunteer Organization) surrendered. PVO Leader Bo La Yaung (whose name means "Officer Moonshine") talked with War Minister Bo Ne Win (whose name means "Officer Sunshine"), then ordered his 7,000 troops to "emerge from darkness and work in the light in a democratic way." Thus ended Burma...