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CHINA has emphasized the training of insurgents from elsewhere in Asia -Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Ceylon, Japan and the Philippines. The Chinese program, which currently involves 100-150 students per year, is one of the toughest and most fervent. Most sources agree that, while the Russians provide strong ideological and theoretical training for warfare in the indefinite future, the Chinese program is pragmatically oriented toward more immediate action, and is extremely rigorous. Training takes place under deliberately primitive conditions; if guerrillas visit the cities at all, they do so in the guise of students or tourists...
...outright over 60,000 square miles of on and offshore concessions in Indonesia. In the last year, moreover, Japanese firms have bought into concessions of at least four other foreign oil companies in Indonesia and Malaysia, and have shown interest in getting involved in offshore exploration in the Philippines, Burma, and Thailand. Japanese firms are reportedly negotiating with the Burmese, although Burma has long been ideologically opposed to foreign private investment...
...chief U.N. executive should come from a country that is neutral, small and underdeveloped-which rules out Japan, among others. Since the first two men to hold the job, Norway's Trygve Lie and Sweden's Dag Hammarskjöld, were white Europeans and Thant is from Burma, many African and Latin delegates believe that it is their turn. But neither Moscow nor Washington wholly trusts the Black Africans (too unpredictable on any issue but race and colonialization), and the Russians feel that everything south of the Rio Grande except Cuba and Chile is a Yankee playground. Finally...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Slim, 79, leader of the "forgotten army" that liberated Burma from the Japanese in World War II; of a stroke; in London. Low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas. The struggle went on for more than three years until May 1945, when the polyglot army of Indians, Nepalese, Africans and Britons captured the port of Rangoon, virtually ending the Burma campaign...
...Britain bequeathed it a parliamentary system. Not until last week, however, did Pakistan's rulers get around to adopting a feature normally associated with such a system: nationwide general elections. From the rugged Khyber Pass at Afghanistan's doorstep to the Chittagong Hills near the jungles of Burma, some 40 million voters turned out at polling places. Despite their newness to the process, they seemed to know exactly what they wanted. Picking their way through the conflicting claims of 20-odd parties, they gave an overwhelming endorsement to only two of them, thereby laying the foundation for what...