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...EAST Burma 95.4 95.4 Cambodia 248.6 85.9 334.5 Nationalist China 2,051.6 2,376.7 4,428.3 Hong Kong 30.4 30.4 Indo-China Region 2 825.6 709.6 1,535.2 Indonesia 670.9 670.9 Japan 2,660.7 1,033.1 3,693.8 Korea 3,431.4 2,002.2 5,433.6 Laos 291.9 169.8 461.7 Malaya 23.2 23.2 Philippines 1,334.4 418.8 1,753.2 Thailand 336.1 417.8 753.9 Viet Nam 1,699.3 742.4 2,441.7 SEATO 1.8 1.8 Regional 41.9 461.1 503.0 $13,743.2 $8,417.3 $22,160.5 MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA Cyprus 16.9 16.9 Greece 1,784.8 1,602.8 3,387.6 Iran...
...Perelman, 59. Having bagged a Broadway comedy hit. The Beauty Part, Perelman was an author in search of "four magazine articles." At the end of his Land-Roving safari through Kenya, he caromed up to London, hoping later to join a tiger shoot in India, then on to Burma and Bangkok to see what the jet-set drifters were doing for laughs...
...Army Vice Chief of Staff, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Chairman of the Burma Oil Co., Aung Gyi was Ne Win's No. 2 man and heir apparent. The son of a well-to-do Chinese textile merchant and a Burmese woman, he proved himself a canny diplomat both in the 1960 negotiations that fixed Burma's borders with Red China and in last month's talks with Japan that produced $170 million in additional World War II reparations and loans. Despite his insistence that "I have no training in economics," he built a modest army...
Inevitably, Aung Gyi's gradualism annoyed Ne Win, a soldier who is no Communist but has vowed to socialize Burma as quickly as possible. Aung Gyi earned the enmity of Brigadier Tin Pe, a Marxist theorist and a key member of the Revolutionary Council. For months, Tin Pe pressed for a faster switchover to state control; Aung Gyi's departure means that Tin Pe has finally...
...China and India. At least four high-ranking officers who shared his views were arrested or forced into retirement. With the opposition out of the way, Ne Win declared that the government would immediately take over the import and export business, the rice trade and some private industries. Burma's economy, said he, would now come under "total state control...