Word: burma
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality "China White...
Furthermore, other Southeast Asian nations were alarmed by Vietnam's 1979 invasion and feared further expansionist action. Thailand, Laos, Burma and others took a strong stand against Vietnams's action, and supported the rebel coalition, which includes the Khmer Rouge...
When Japanese professor Sadako Ogata arrived in Burma last week as a special envoy of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Saw Maung expressed his contempt for the very notion. "I will not give the kind of rights demanded by the Voice of America," he said in a speech. "I will not give the students the right to stage demonstrations. I won't let the people emulate the incidents in Eastern Europe...
...budget that devotes 40% of its resources to the military. The cutoff of U.S. aid after the 1988 riots has had no discernible effect, leading some American policymakers to ponder whether to try some limited involvement with the Burmese government once again. Burton Levin, the former U.S. ambassador to Burma, says no. "To think you can sit down and talk to these people would be to ignore the history of the last 28 years," he says. "If these people remain in power, there will be no change...
...spirits whose influence predates Buddhism. Despite the military siege, thousands of pilgrims entered monasteries all over the country last week. They prayed, tucking money into the clothing on figures of the nats. Then they sought out the astrologers who line the covered walkways around the temples. Questioned about Burma's future, one astrologer in Mandalay cast a wary glance over his shoulder to see if anyone might be listening. Then he whispered, "Burma is waiting...