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...distinguished visitor was on his way came so unexpectedly that Peking barely had time to arrange the customary "spontaneous demonstrations" in his honor. At the last minute, some 3,000 shivering workers were rounded up and hustled off to the airport to chant "Long live Premier Ne Win of Burma!" But stern-faced General Ne Win was not in Peking for empty courtesies...
This, reported Pravda, brought "very stormy applause." What better way to proclaim peaceful intentions on the eve of Khrushchev's trip to India, Burma and Indonesia? The basic motive of the troop cut, cried Khrushchev, "is a lofty humanitarian ideal inherent in our forward-looking concept of life, of a Socialist society...
Never So Few (Canterbury Productions; M-G-M), based on the 1957 bestseller (about 500,000 copies) by Tom T. Chamales, is a war picture that helpfully explains to those who were not there what the war in Burma was really like...
...Japanese peeping from behind every other orchid. Fortunately, the enemy looked like monkeys and were awfully dumb. U.S. Army Captain Frank Sinatra was running the show, a Tommy gun in one hand and a bottle in the other. What a man. They called him "the Abe Lincoln of North Burma." Back in Calcutta on leave, Frankie met Gina Lollobrigida, who decided he was the biggest thing to hit those parts since Errol Flynn. "Say," said Frank, "you're put together like a Christmas package.'' Gina played hard to get, but Frank got her. In fact...
...seemed clear last week that the 19605 were going to be as bad a decade for civilian-led parliamentary democracy in Southeast Asia as the 19505, when the military took over the governments in Pakistan, Thailand and Burma. The first to go in the new year was tiny, landlocked Laos, which has been wrestling for years with corruption, chaos and Communism-and an amiable indifference to all three. Invaded by Red bands from Communist North Viet Nam last summer (TIME, Aug. 24), Laos was narrowly saved from collapse by quick action in the United Nations, which sent a team...