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...Burma's U Thant, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations, last week finally got clear title...
...born in 1912, Britain decided to look to its borders. At a three-nation meeting in Simla in 1914, Britain's representative. Sir Arthur McMahon, determined the eastern portion of the border by drawing a line on a map along the Himalayan peaks from Bhutan to Burma. The Tibetan and Chinese delegates initialed this map, but the newborn Chinese Republic refused to ratify it, and so has every Chinese government since...
...served for six years as Chief Minister of Bombay, the richest and most industrialized Indian state. The army's new commander in chief, Lieut. General J. N. Chaudhuri, the "Victor of Goa," who also saw action in World War II campaigns in the Middle East and Burma, is a close friend of Chavan...
Died. Sao Shwe Thaike, 66, first President of the Union of Burma from 1948 to 1952, hereditary leader of the Shan tribe, and thought by Burma's military to be a key man behind the Shan separatist movement; he was arrested in last March's coup, when troops surrounded his rambling Rangoon mansion and shot to death his 17-year-old son; of a heart attack; while under detention in an army camp outside Rangoon...
...determination. Before his illness, he was responsible for one of the few Indian victories in the border war, when his troops routed the Chinese at Ndhola on Oct. 10, killing 100 of the attackers and driving back the remainder. A veteran who saw action against the Japanese in Burma during World War II and against the Pakistanis in 1948, Kaul also served as chief of staff of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission at the end of the Korean war, where he was accused of favoring the Communists. When he returned to India, Nehru jokingly asked, "Have you turned...