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...engine and return to San Francisco. The morning papers reported matter-of-factly that the plane was missing. Not until the afternoon editions did word get out that one of the three men aboard was craggy, bespectacled Brigadier General Joseph Warren Stilwell Jr., 54, son of World War IIs Burma campaign hero, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, and since early last year commander of U.S. Special Forces training, headquartered at Fort Bragg...
...gear. Besides, Stilwell had always had his father's famed knack for survival. As leathery and almost as prickly as Vinegar Joe, he came to be known among his troops as "Cider Joe." A 1933 West Point graduate, Joe Stilwell won his combat spurs as a colonel in Burma campaign headquarters and as commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in Korea. From 1962 to 1964, he commanded the U.S. Support Group in Viet Nam, earning frowns from higher-ups for spending as much time manning machine guns and riding helicopters as he did at his Saigon desk...
...Southeast Asia for three years, was followed by a chain reaction of peace movements throughout the area. The Philippines finally decided to make friends with Malaysia, as well, and there has been much discussion about forming a regional economic community that might include Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Burma. In Seoul last month, foreign ministers of nine non-Communist Asian lands got together to talk about the possibility of forming a sort of Asian Common Market...
...administrator since 1964. A Yale-educated lawyer, Gaud (pronounced Gowd) began his public service as assistant corporation counsel for New York City under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who thought Gaud was qualified to become mayor himself some day. An army colonel in charge of lend-lease operations for the China-Burma-India theater during World War II, Gaud put in a brief postwar stint as special assistant to War Secretary Robert Patterson, then went into private practice in New York City. Not until 1961 did he return to public service to direct aid programs for the Middle East and South Asia...
Since the hill tribes have been openly hostile to Ne Win's totalitarian rule, the missionaries have frequently been suspected of taking sides with the dissidents. Despite the clerics' protests of neutrality, and despite Burma's professed freedom of religion, mission property was nationalized last year, without compensation. A Salvation Army worker was told that she had "neglected to fulfill the guest's obligation-which is to know when to go home." Remembering that the churches flourished during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II, older missionaries are confident that Christianity's convert...