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...Burma's Dictator Ne Win, 52, must hate getting up in the morning. What he rises to face each day is a nation of 22 million people plagued by at least five separate rebellions, ranging from the Kachin tribesmen, who want autonomy, to the Red Flag Communists, who are so fanatical that they think even China's Mao Tse-tung is "too moderate." Burmese businessmen bitterly resent the nationalization of industry; peasants grumble at the collectivization of agriculture; Buddhist monks protest that government expropriation of the rich robs them of endowments. Ne Win's latest enemies...
...Donor nations: the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan. Recipients: Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Lacs, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, South Viet Nam, Thailand...
...nepotism." Says he: "Sister Bridget won't be chairing the Tory conference at Blackpool, my bird-watching brother Henry won't be next Secretary of State for Scotland, I will not be sent to the U.N., and Edward, my youngest brother, who spent four years on the Burma railway as a prisoner of war, will not be Minister without Portfolio in the Far East...
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Crocodiles Are In. Color can be an Oriental problem: purple is a noble shade in Japan but represents death in Burma; and on Formosa, despite the political connotations, red is considered a lucky color, and advertisements abound in crimson. Africans, along with admiration for anything "new from America," have extremely literal reactions. Gillette is a heavy seller because it uses wrappers that depict a razor blade slicing a crocodile in half to emphasize sharpness. But literal-mindedness can be a problem. After her first glimpse of television, one native woman asked: "When all the good men have killed...