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...mile frontier between Burma and Communist China runs through some of the world's wildest country. In its southern reaches, the limestone mountains of the Shan States rise to almost 9,000 feet, and at its northern end, snowcapped Himalayan peaks push up to more than twice that height. At lower altitudes, an average annual rainfall of 200 inches produces thick jungle cut only by swift-running rivers and an occasional trail. Scattered through this wilderness is a confusing melange of primitive peoples-gentle Shans, timid Palaungs, and the warlike little Kachins who, under U.S. officers, harried the Japanese...
...border, snaking across an area seldom explored and inadequately mapped, has been in dispute ever since the British seized Upper Burma in 1885. On a variety of dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their...
Limited Invasion. Last week Rangoon's leading daily Nation broke the story that Chinese Communist troops had moved into Burma along a 500-mile front running from Putao in Kachin State down...
...Rangoon audience on Burma's Martyrs' Day did not need to ask U Nu who the distant aunts were-the Communists. And though U Nu no longer leads his country's government (he resigned two months ago), he is still first in the hearts of his countrymen. The words of this leading apostle of Southeast Asia neutralism reflected his country's growing disillusionment with Communism...
...them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks by monsoon rains (TIME, May 21). Most insulting of all, the Russians and Chinese began selling off their Burmese rice in Burma's own best markets. Said U Nu bitterly last month: "Anybody who goes into a barter deal when he could have a cash deal is crazy." The experience has not diminished Bur ma's determination - as a small country with a thousand-mile Chinese border - to stick...