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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON THURSDAY, MAY 33, 1963 Burmese Government Said in Steady Move Toward Eastern Bloc of Nations Editor' note: UPI'i gen eral news manager for Alia ii the tint Western news men to enter Burma tine Jhe govern m e n t itopptd giving visas to foreign jour nalists three months ago. In ihe following dlipatch ht report! on the current ttatut of the military gov ernment'i so-called "Bur- meie Way to Socialism." By DONALD J. BRYDON Rangoon - IUPII - The sleek airliner' touched down at Mingaladon airport 10 miles outside Rangoon and eight passengers stepped off.;' A British businessman was chatting with a man making his first visit to Burma: "Not many people are go ing to Burma these days," he said. "It's a pity. Rangoon is one of the nicest titles in the Orient, but there isn't much to attract the westerner any more." , ..-,,... There is little doubt that this is just the way the gov ernment wants it. Trade with the West is openly discour aged.: .. , . .- The revolutionary council, under the. direction of Gen. Ne Win, took control of the government in an almost bloodless coup in March, 1962. The teen -aged son of Sao Shwe Thaike, the first presi dent of independent Burma, was killed while resisting ar rest when army troops sur rounded his father's home. He was the only casualty. Moves Toward Eait Since then the government has moved steadily away from the West and toward the east ern bloc of nations. It is not a Communist government by any means, but some ob servers feel the day is com ing when Burma will move all the way to the left. .'. Today, however, the mili tary men who rule the revo lutionary council of the Union of Burma . call themselves non-aligned socialists. They say they took over the gov ernment last year and placed Former Premier P Nu, along with President U Win "under protective custody'" because the country was on the verge of disintegrating. U Nu and the other de posed officials are still being held 14 miles north of Ran goon at a military base. They are under heavy guard and U Nu's wife has seen her hus band only once since he was arrested. Unity Urgent Problem Western diplomats agree that the most urgent problem facing the Burmese govern ment is that of unity. Various insurgent groups are in open revolt against the govern ment. The rebels are located in small widely-separated areas. They present no serious threat to the government but stage hit and run raids on small outposts and villages. The largest Insurgent groups are made up of Com munists and Karens. Two other movements are under way in the Shan states in northeastern Burma. One calls for secession from Bur ma. The other group desires a change in the constitution which would create a feder ation of Burma, somewhat along the lines of the govern ment of the United States, with more autonomy for the individual states. Early in 1962 at meetings in Rangoon and Tainggyi, Shan leaders openly declared they would use force to achieve their ends. This was when the army decided the nation was on the verge of widespread rebellion and pos sible disintegration. The mili tary moved in on March 2 and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. Actually the armed forces have taken over the govern ment twice in the past five years. Both times U Nu was premier. On Sept. 26, 1958, U Nu called on the military to form a "caretaker govern ment" which ruled for six months. Ne Win and his armed forces did not wait for an invitation the second time. And now, after more than one year of the "Burmese Way to Socialism" under Ne Win's leadership, where docs Burma stand and where Is it headed? Banks Nationalised All foreign, as well as Bur mese, banks have been na tionalized. This included Com munist China's Bank of China. Newspapers, magazines and book publishers are licensed and kept under a tight rein. News print allocations arc controlled by the government Industrialization in Burma is lagging behind other Asian nations but Ne Win says the country must first concentrate on building up its agricultural economy. He plans to set up new industries with money derived from the sale of rice and other agricultural prod ucts. Official government rela tions with the West have be come strained while Burma's tics with the socialist nations have become closer. Trade with the West was never great but it is less to day. Great Britain still has economic and cultural tics with Burma based on Eng land's long period of colonial rule. There is virtually no trade with the United Stales. Almost all cf the 800 Amer icans in Burma are mission aries or employees of the U.S. State department. There are only two American business men in Burma. One is an air line representative in Run goon and the other is a farmer in upper Burma. RUG SHAMPOOERS for RENT at A to Z Rental 1213 N. 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As they say, under the terms celiac syndrome are often in cluded several diseases which now can be distinguished and identified with special tests and diets. , In most of these . diseases, the child suffers from diarr hea; often he loses weight, and he may develop a big ab domen. Today, we can have hope, because there is' one group of sick children who can be quickly helped by tak ing out of their diet all of the gluten (a part of the wheat) which is to be-found in bread- stuffs. When kept away from gluten, these - children : df ten recover beautifully.' ; " Others of the children have the so-called "cystic fibrosis" of the pancrease (the big di gestive gland back of the stomach). They can be helped with a diet, and large amounts of a panoreatic extract, which helps them to digest their food it supplies the digestive ferments which their pancreas is failing to make. Something Wrong . In another condition, called exudative enteropathy, some thing has gone wrong which has allowed an important ele ment of the blood to ooze out into the bowel. , Other chil dren with a sprue-like disease may suffer because of a lack of certain important digestive ferments in their small bowel. In 1950, a new inherited disease was discovered which is called acanthocyfosis. For tunately, it is race. The af fected children have peculiar- looking red blood cells. They not only have diarrhea with trouble with absorption in the bowel, but they have signs of trouble in their nervous sys terns characterized by a dis ease of the back of their eyes and a staggering walk. Several Diseases It is a comfort now to note that in the big research insti tutes and hospitals in Beth esda, (near Washington, D. C.) the doctors are taking care of many . children . and adults with what may look at first like one rare disease. 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