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Though Congress in 1975 legislated a gradual and voluntary changeover in weights and measures, nothing seems harder to do than to get Americans to adopt metric, the system used by all the world except Brunei, Burma, North and South Yemen-and the U.S. In 1977, a Gallup poll found Americans opposed to metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week...
...submit stories in advance for clearance. In many repressive countries, the disruption of reporters' telephone calls and telex transmissions occurs mainly in war zones or during revolutions. Among the nations that have disrupted correspondents' communications at least occasionally in the past few years: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Burma, Iran, Kampuchea, Poland, the Sudan and the Soviet Union...
...from the surface. One group even boasts its own flag, a green map of Assam with a mailed fist in the center. Except for a narrow passage, the state is separated from India by Bangladesh. Since ancient times, its ethnic and cultural ties have always been closer to Burma and Tibet than to the rest of India. In tribute to their proud and independent past, the students have taken to calling their movement "the 18th war of independence," a reference to the 17 wars fought by Assam's legendary King Lachit Borphukan, who in the 1600s was the only...
DIED. Lao Su, 57, infamous, elusive Chinese-born opium warlord of Southeast Asia's poppy-rich Golden Triangle; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a Thai border patrol as he was leading a heroin caravan out of his remote refineries in Burma...
...German agents. An anti-Nazi official who was slipping papers to Allen Dulles, Donovan's man in Switzerland, was mistakenly suspected of being a German double agent. Although Winston Churchill was a Donovan drinking buddy, the British undermined efforts to put OSS agents in the Balkans, Scandinavia, Burma, India and other places where their own agents were already at work...