Word: burma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Burma's U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, who announced that he had been "conducting private discussions" with various nations involved in the Viet Nam conflict and had made "concrete" proposals that he could not publicly divulge. Still, he felt certain that the American people, "if only they knew the true facts"-presumably, there are "untrue" facts in Burma-would agree with him "that further bloodshed is unnecessary...
...effort to promote negotiations over Viet Nam, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week pointed with pride to his native Burma. His homeland, he told newsmen, had been faced with Communist insurrection after independence in 1948, but by themselves, the Burmese contained the Reds...
...Thant added that Burma has a 1,000-mile border with Red China, "but let me tell you, there has not been a single instance of outside help to the Communists inside Burma in the last 17 years." Had Burma accepted outside aid against the Reds, one of two things would have happened: "Either the country would be divided into two parts, or the whole country would have become Communist long ago." Finally, U Thant contended that Burma had held off Communism without the loss "of one American life" or the "expenditure of one American dollar in military assistance...
...West certainly cannot impose capitalism or democracy on Asia with the air of a crusader. But it can work toward building free economies and free societies, even if socialist concessions have to be made. Malaysia and Thailand represent viable, hopeful alternatives to Tibet and Burma. In the meantime, the U.S. must hang on-and then hang on some more-in Southeast Asia. The operative word is patience, and essentially, patience is an Asian word...
...Communism that Viet Nam could push it over the brink. Thailand is a country that wants to be on our side, but it is a nation that has always been on the winning side, and this is the only way its independence has survived for a thousand years. Burma is an economic slum, with immense problems and immense pressures, and it will go. Malaysia couldn't possibly stand with its 10 million people surrounded by a sea of Communism." As for Indonesia, "the news has not been pleasant lately...