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...fact that?after 48 years of American occupation and two decades of independence?the Philippine Republic endures as Asia's freest democracy. It is no "showcase," to be sure, but it stands as a model of hope for all of non-Communist Southeast Asia: from the introverted Burma of Neutralist General Ne Win to the bankrupt chaos of Suharto's Indonesia; from royalist Thailand through Malaysia to trifurcated Laos; and certainly to South Viet Nam itself...
...Burma for eight years, and would not hesitate to state that 90% of the people are totally against Ne Win and his government [Sept. 16]. He has antagonized every single sector of the nation. He has been absolutely ruthless, despotic and stupid in bringing chaos to the economy of a wonderful land and a wonderful people...
...Burma's neutralist strongman Ne Win, whose nation shares 1,200 miles of border with Red China, feels secure enough to take a 21-month trip abroad - including a visit to the U.S. that he hardly would have considered making a few months ago. Having bitterly broken away from Malaysia a year ago and first set out on a violently anti-American, pro-Peking trajectory, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, himself a Chinese, has lately warmed up to Malaysia and now openly praises America's role in Viet Nam. Faced by the xenophobic madness...
...ideological war last month; Indonesia has shattered the Peking-Djakarta axis; Chinese inroads in Africa and Latin America have been marred by the clumsiest diplomacy of modern times. In Asia today, Peking can count on the support of only a few Communist parties, such as those of Ceylon, Burma and New Zealand...
Welthy* Fisher first went to Asia 60 years ago. The daughter of a Rome, N.Y., Methodist businessman, she took a job as headmistress of a missionary school for girls in Nanchang, China. When she was 43, she married the Methodist Bishop of India and Burma, Frederick Fisher, and through him came to know Mohandas Gandhi. She first met the Mahatma in 1926, sat with him for five hours while he meditated. Years after she was widowed and just before his own death, Gandhi urged her to go to work in India's villages...