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...existence." Gurkhas were the only regiments to break through the Turkish lines at Gallipoli; in 1919 they chased the Bolsheviks from the Persian border and penetrated deep into the Caucasus before they were called off. In World War II, the 200,000 Gurkhas served with greater distinction in Africa. Burma and Italy-notably Monte Cassino-than almost any other Allied outfit...
Died. Tin Maung ("Tinny") Thant, 21, only son of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, a onetime sociology student at Manhattan's Hunter College; of brain injuries after falling off a swerving bus; in Rangoon, Burma...
...Turkey, only one newspaper even put the news on Page One: some ignored it completely. Radio Iran approved the test resumption. There were no demonstrations in Buddhist Burma, but the Rangoon Guardian said that the nuclear race now "endangers mankind with annihilation." In the Philippines, apathetic reaction was summed up by citizens who asked: "Where's Christmas Island...
Useless Compromise. Moscow could still stop the Pacific blasts with a stroke of the pen-by signing a test-ban treaty with adequate inspection guarantees against cheating. Time and again the Russians have refused to do so. Nevertheless, the eight "middlemen" at the conference (Brazil, Burma, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria and Sweden) also played the game by weighing in with a "compromise" plan of their own that would leave it up to individual countries to "invite" foreign inspectors to investigate suspicious explosions. It was a system tailor-made for nuclear cheating. Zorin and the Communists liked it; Dean...
...China's first attempt to bite off an Indian finger came after its subjugation of Tibet, when it repudiated the so-called McMahon Line, the border arranged between British India and Tibet in 1914, and named after the head British negotiator. Running across N.E.F.A. from Bhutan to Burma, the line set the border at the watershed at the crest of the highest mountains. But the Red Chinese declared the McMahon Line an "illegal, null and void" product of "British imperialism," claimed that the actual border ran along the southern foot of the mountains...