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Once they have attained wealth or fame, most alumni like to do something nice for their alma mater. Not so Burma's military strongman, General Ne Win, an alumnus of Rangoon University, who last week handed his old school a painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary...
...were triggered by a government order confining students to their dormitories every night after 8 o'clock. But student unrest has been growing all month as Ne Win urgently pushed his idea of a single party to encompass the entire nation. Of the three major political parties in Burma, only the pro-Peking Communist National United Front enthusiastically responded,*obviously because it hopes to dominate the single party. The country's two democratic-socialist parties oppose the plan. So do Rangoon's students, some of whom are Communists or Communist-led; many others simply like to raise...
Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet, under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma...
Merrill's Marauders goes behind the Japanese lines with 3,000 U.S. volunteers in Burma, and documents their ordeal as they fought, died and endured in the smothering heat and quiet of the jungle...
Merrill's Marauders goes behind the Japanese lines with 3,000 U.S. volunteers in Burma, and documents their ordeal as they fought, died and endured in the smothering heat and quiet of the jungle...