Word: wa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only by swift-running rivers and an occasional trail. Scattered through this wilderness is a confusing melange of primitive peoples-gentle Shans, timid Palaungs, and the warlike little Kachins who, under U.S. officers, harried the Japanese unmercifully throughout World War II. Most primitive of all are the wild Wa, who live in hill villages that can be entered only through tunnels. The Wa believe that a village's supply of human skulls must be replenished each year to ensure good crops...
...Wa States (see map). In some places, Chinese outposts were reported 60 miles within Burma...
...border, denied the Nation's report, though the news had obviously been leaked by worried Burmese army officers. Finally, bit by bit. the government began to admit facts which it had been suppressing for more than a year. The Chinese "invasion," said the government, was limited to the Wa States, where Red troops began to cross the border in the 1954-55 winter. By May of last year, Chinese Communist forces had established semipermanent outposts inside the Wa States, and in November a Burmese army column on routine "flag march" in the Wa country was attacked by a Chinese...
What the situation was as of last week nobody in the Burmese government really knew, since all roads leading to the Wa States had been washed out by monsoon rains. The Burmese army estimates that the Chinese Reds have expanded their occupation forces to "a few thousand men" and now hold about 1,000 square miles of Burmese territory...
...last week unveiled a colossal monument, carved from a mountaintop and scooped out of the surrounding sea, to its determination to ring Communist China with bases. Sixty miles northwest of Manila, overlooking the calm blue wa ters of Bataan's Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised over land that only five years ago was an impenetrable mixture of mountain, swamp and jungle, swarming with pythons. The new Cubi Point Naval Air Station is the Navy's largest air station in Asia, and a major addition to SEATO's chain of defense...