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...Thika. The Scots set fire to the wood, and in the glare of burning trees, their armored cars raked the area with heavy machine-gun fire. The Mau Mau fired back, and in the very first volley, brought down the patrol leader with a homemade rifle. A veteran of Burma, he bore a soldierly name: Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, only son of the late Field Marshal Earl Wavell...
...addition to Pakistan and Indonesia, the abstentious were: afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and Yugoslavia. El Salvador and Lebanon were absent...
Left Hook. In the event of war, India's generals do not expect the Chinese to strike their main blow across the Himalayas-although they are taking no chances. They expect instead a Chinese left hook through Burma and Assam towards Calcutta. Short of war, the generals agree that infiltration is the danger...
...frame for everything from waste baskets to cradles for huge water towers. Among its most enthusiastic buyers is the U.S. Air Force, which uses it on air bases in England and North Africa in parts racks, filing cabinets, plane-boarding ramps and platforms for servicing aircraft. In Burma, native soldiers sleep on bed frames built of Dexion, and in India the government is considering using it in slum-clearance projects. Last week enough Dexion to frame 20 three-room houses and a twelve-bed hospital was en route to earthquake-stricken Greek islands to replace ruined buildings...
This marked a partial healing, which may become total, of a sore spot that has troubled southeastern Asia for four years: the presence of 7,000 to 9.000 (Burma says 12,000) Nationalist Chinese troops .and hangers-on in northern Burma. After Burmese protests in the U.N.. the General Assembly backed the Rangoon government, and an agreement was negotiated to bring out some 2,000 of the alien guests with their unit commanders. Last week's evacuees were the first installment...