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Shepley shipped out as a war correspondent early in World War II, a member of what was to become a distinguished team of Time Inc. war reporters. He covered Stilwell's assault on the Japanese in Burma, accompanied "Merrill's Marauders," a name he coined, reported Allied campaigns in the Southwest Pacific, and saw action in Europe, including the Battle of the Bulge...
...Sukarno's Maphilindo (Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia), which fell apart because of his own anti-Malaysia campaign, would furnish markets for Indonesia's untapped riches. If some military and political stability can ever be achieved, a logical common market would be the Southeast Asia peninsula, including Burma, with its interlaced river network providing needed transportation. And, except for Japanese-Korean animosity, Japan could reduce its production costs by farming out some industries to South Korea, where people need the jobs, and aim for Taiwan as a market...
Battle Refuge. Sparsely populated Laos (2,500,000 people) has little of value to fight over. But it is strategically situated at the axis of six other nations with which it shares common borders: Red China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Viet Nam. Through the eastern half of Laos, controlled by the Pathet Lao, stretches the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which the North Vietnamese regularly infiltrate South Viet Nam. More than 75,000 North Vietnamese troops are now on Laotian soil, between 20,000 and 30,000 of them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers...
...about the chap who lost his false teeth in Burma, and has been looking for his bridge on the River Kwai...
Staggered like the old Burma Shave signs, the placards produced by the Connecticut safe driving campaign read: The Careful Driver (first sign), Never Meets (second sign), Our Unmarked Patrol Cars (third sign...