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...shattered India's comfortable illusion that the Himalayas are an impenetrable line of defense. Since 1954, Red China has occupied 14,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in the Ladakh area of Kashmir, clamored for an additional 32,500 sq. mi. in the North East Frontier Agency near Burma's border. Other smaller chunks claimed by the Chinese brought the total to some...
...eight of the "middlemen" at the conference (Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt) were pressing both East and West to keep talking. With their usual moral myopia, several flatly condemned all further bomb tests. "Haven't you sufficiently contaminated, with your arms tests, the air we breathe, the milk we drink, the food we eat?" cried Egypt's Foreign Minister. Some "neutrals" had well-meaning but irrelevant proposals of their own to make: Ethiopia's Acting Foreign Minister Ke-tema Yifru pleaded that Africa be declared an "atom-free zone"; Sweden's Foreign...
Hollow Boast. Sitting nervously among the big nuclear powers were the eight "middlemen" of the U.N. disarmament meeting, the delegates of Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt. Many were utter novices in the murky technicalities of the cold war, but, being wooed by both East and West, they soon rallied under the leadership of India's V. K. Krishna ("The Unspeakable") Menon. Brazil's Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas, for example, criticized the Soviet Union for last fall's tests, went right ahead to urge the U.S. to cancel its own spring series...
...During Burma's first decade of independence, the nation's undisputed leader was affable, ascetic Premier U Nu, a sometime Buddhist monk who sought through his politics "to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana." But U Nu was a lackluster administrator, and by 1958 Burma's rice-rich economy was on the brink of ruin and domestic Communists were gaining strength. Willingly, Socialist U Nu turned over power to a military caretaker regime headed by General Ne Win, who restored efficient government, defeated Communist guerrilla bands. After 15 months in office he held elections that...
Recently, Burma has been beset again by a faltering economy and sharpened political tensions. Heavy floods last fall wiped out 800,000 acres of revenue-producing rice just as the nation was about to embark on an ambitious industrial development plan; U Nu's Union Party elected five left-wingers to key executive posts; ethnic minority groups such as Shans and Karens were demanding greater self-determination, threatening national unity. Last week, reading the signs of a "vastly deteriorating situation," Ne Win staged a lightning-quick coup, seized U Nu and about 40 other government leaders. Despite the rumble...