Re: Ex-Burma President Dies A

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>Subject : Ex-Burma President Dies At 69

>   RANGOON, Burma (AP) -- Maung Maung, a Western-educated
>intellectual who ruled for one month in 1988 as Burma's only
>civilian president, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 69.
>   Maung Maung became president Aug. 18, 1988, when his predecessor
>was ousted by student-led pro-democracy demonstrations after only
>17 days in office.

Too bad the wrong person died...Maung Maung was a stooge of Ne Win, who
wrote the 1974 constitution which steered Burma into the gutter where 
it is now. Wouldn't it be nice if Shu Maung (Ne Win) or Khin Nyunt dided?

>   After independence in 1948, Maung Maung received a doctorate in
>international law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a
>law degree from Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
>   He spent two years as a lecturer at Yale, teaching political
>science and Southeast Asian studies.
>   After Ne Win's 1962 military coup, Maung Maung was appointed
>chief justice. He was named justice minister in 1972 and later
>served on the central committee of Ne Win's Burma Socialist Program
>Party.

I wonder what Yale taught in those days? I think Bush was a graduate 
of Yale also and look what he did to US.

Ct