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...degree from almost any accredited Commonwealth school is acceptable to all others. Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand have dovetailed their old-age pension plans, medical and unemployment benefits so as to make them interchangeable. Even Eire and Burma, which left the Commonwealth, are elliptically described as "not foreign countries." The tradition of the dignity of the individual seems to pay off. In not a single Commonwealth country is there a major Communist Party of importance or prestige...
...Burma seems to doubt that General Ne Win's military regime will, in due course, call general elections and hand the country back to civilian rule. But due course is not soon enough for U Nu, the moonfaced ex-Premier who called the soldiers in when his own political dominance began to crumble...
...league with U Nu's political rivals to prevent his victory at the next elections-whenever they are held. The army has also embarrassed U Nu by turning up numerous cases of corruption in his government. So far, by general agreement, General Ne Win has served Burma well. He has kept prices generally stable, has cleared miles of hideous Rangoon slums, and moved 100,000 squatters out of the city. The general has not tampered with the courts or the press. Still, army rule is, by its own declaration, temporary...
...Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. A veteran of Merrill's Marauders recalls the grim Burma days of World War II and writes movingly of the anatomy of courage...
That night, while his guards dozed, Stryguine jumped out of bed as if heading for the bathroom, but leaped instead through a first-floor window. He fell twelve feet to the ground, got up unsteadily, lurched across the courtyard to a guardroom, crying, "Help, Burma army! Help, Burma army!" but the watching