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Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
...self-proclaimed dreamer and devout Buddhist, U Nu turned in a remarkable job as a man of action. Starting off with a shaky combat force of only 12,000 men, his government in eight years of intermittent fighting has succeeded in reducing to dispersed guerrillaism five major rebellious factions, including two varieties of Communists (White Flag Communists and Red Flag Trotskyites). Simultaneously, U Nu and his Socialists pushed through a land-reform program and began to lay the groundwork for industrialization...
...Time to Meditate. All the while, U Nu plaintively talked of retiring to a Buddhist monastery to meditate and write, and for two years his written resignation has been in the hands of Burma's ruling coalition, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League...
Careful Coincidence. This year Japanese climbers brought along a Nepalese military escort, a large collection of Buddhist books, cases of smallpox vaccine and a $550 contribution for the ruined monastery. Even so, Sama's citizens prepared to do battle. Then the Japanese played their ace. They introduced their leader, Yuko Maki, 62, a Tokyo manure dealer, who happened, by careful coincidence, to be just as devout a Buddhist as the Samians. Maki passed on all the gifts and made his pitch: as a Buddhist, his trek up Manaslu would be a pilgrimage, not a desecration. What's more...
...rested for their predawn assault. Near the summit the air was dead calm, and the climbers hacked steps that took them up the final 2,658 ft. in a scant six hours. On the sun-drenched summit they stayed long enough to take pictures and offer Buddhist prayers. Two days later, a second team climbed the peak...