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...there are wonderful drives from the seedy capital of Djakarta through jungle-clad hills to cool Bandung and Bogor. Bali has two good hotels and is always lively with festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description of it, but Mandalay, Pagan and Rangoon have thousands of superb Buddhist monasteries and gold-domed temples alive with tinkling silver bells. With newer and better hotels, steadily improving plane service and a gradual understanding of visitors' needs, tourist traffic in the Far East is up 20% over 1959, should total...
...made new resolutions to become a good man." His Cleans would "behave like good politicians to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana," and he promised if elected to make Buddhism the "state religion." Last week the Cleans won municipal majorities in eleven major Burmese cities, and in Mandalay, Burma's second largest city, U Nu's forces cleaned out the Stables with a vengeance. U Nu candidates, expecting to win 20 seats in the municipal corporation, swept all 35 seats. Though the elections were local ones, all signs pointed to U Nu's return...
Last week, in a surprising policy switch, the Burmese government of General Ne Win turned to the U.S. for help in two top-priority projects: constructing a badly needed four-lane highway from Rangoon to Mandalay and adding classroom space for 7,000 students at the University of Rangoon. The move was cheered even by Burma's original apostle of neutralism, Ex-Premier...
...agreed to supply a total of $37 million over the next four years-one of the few long-term promises of help the U.S. has made. Included: a survey by U.S. Army engineers before widening the narrow and potholed road to Mandalay...
...capital city of Rangoon seems a different place. Gone are the huge heaps of filthy garbage that littered the streets, and gone the packs of wild pye-dogs that fed on them. Buildings are getting their first coats of paint since 1941. Night trains are running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced by army officers. The new emphasis on agriculture instead of impractical steel plants has resulted...