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...stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark contrast to 1967, when at least twelve foreign embassies were besieged by Red Guards at one time or another. There is also evidence that overseas Chinese communities, most notably in Hong Kong and in Burma, have been quietly told to go easy on the kind of zealous Maoism that led to bloody disturbances in both places during the heyday of the Cultural Revolution...
ADMINISTRATION officials have also changed their positions back and forth. September 1964 U Thant got Hanoi to agree to unconditional negotiations in Rangoon, Burma. Thant informed Stevenson, ambassador to the U.N., of the agreement. Stevenson in turn communicated the news to Washington. Four months later Stevenson told U Thant that the United States could not accept the proposal. When Stevenson finally leaked the news of the rejection the following June, Rusk justified the administration's action by contending Hanoi had had no intention of entering "serious" negotiations at the time, citing his sensitive "antennae" as the source of his impression...
India gave Nagaland official status as its 16th state in 1963, but many of the 400,000 Nagas still want nothing less than full independence. The Nagas are racially distinct from Indians, tracing their Oriental origins to Tibet and Burma. Once ferocious headhunters, many Nagas are now Christianized but have scant brotherly love for Hindu administration from New Delhi...
More than 1,000 Nagas are known to have trekked 300 miles through Burma to China's Yunnan province for arms, indoctrination and training. Another 1,000 have been intercepted by Indian troops and turned back. Friendly Nagas in Burma sometimes aid the would-be rebels in traveling to China, but others have beheaded at least three Naga rebels and presented their severed heads to Indian officials as signs of good will. Some 300 China-trained Nagas have already returned to Nagaland, and the rest are due to infiltrate back by November...
...most recent major clash, near Kohima, the Nagas killed 24 Indian regulars. Further fighting is expected once the rest of the rebels return. Last week a small band of rebels, armed with automatic weapons, overran a village near the Burma frontier, captured rifles and ammunition from the local volunteer defense force before withdrawing. India, with a division of troops already tied down in Nagaland, does not want to be encumbered by a cease-fire in dealing with the rebels if the trouble increases. More troops may well be needed, for some Nagas have reportedly been taken...