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...Burma tried to cope with as many as 500,000 chanting and marching anti-Chinese demonstrators a day. The brawling began after General Ne Win closed two Chinese schools for exces sive Mao-think in the curriculum and Chinese students hit the streets in protest, setting off the anti-Chinese explosion. Peking accused Rangoon of instigating an "outrage of white terror" against the Chinese, for the first time came out in full, open support of the more militant of Burma's two Com munist parties...
...against Peking, and vice-versa--the occasion on which we glare at each other. If there weren't the Vietnam war, what would there be in place of it? You'd expect that there would be something. And the mood in Peking, at the moment, of pushing into Burma and Nepal, and all these various things, suggests that the Chinese side would not be content with an American presence in say, Thailand, even if it were not in Vietnam. The problem is to choose your ground, and I suppose we have a general feeling that we should not have...
...Burma, the outburst started after Chinese embassy aides started passing out Mao Tse-tung badges and little Red bibles of Mao-think. The government banned both the badges and the bibles, and a crowd of Chinese students in Rangoon retaliated by taking their teachers as hostages and beating up newsmen. The Burmese struck back by sacking Chinese-owned shops. Burma's military ruler, General Ne Win, declared martial law in Rangoon, and his men fired into mobs which had made three assaults on the Chinese embassy. In turn, Peking denounced the riots as inspired by a "militarist fascist rule...
...immune to chemical insecticides, scientists are developing other weapons against them. Like sex. By encouraging the mating of mosquitoes that are incapable of producing offspring, a West German scientist has wiped out the disease-bearing mosquito population of a Burmese village. And, the attraction that proved so fatal in Burma, he reported to a recent health conference in Washington, can have similar results elsewhere...
...incompatible pairings consisted of a strain from Fresno, Calif., and a Burmese strain that transmitted filariasis, a tropical disease that causes chills, fever and headaches and can lead to elephantiasis. Last March, after breeding a host of strong male mosquitoes from insects caught around Fresno, he flew them to Burma and released 5,000 a day in the isolated village of Okpo. "Those huge males," Laven says, "were quicker and stronger than the indigenous breed." The Fresno males immediately began outdoing their Okpo counterparts in mating with Okpo females-which promptly began laying infertile eggs...