The Lady and the Peacock (82 page)

“prime minister” claim
64

release from detention
303

U Ottama
8
,
10

U Thant
98
,
212

funeral fiasco
41
,
224
–5,
226
,
227
–9,
388

illness and death
224

New York home
214

saves Burmese-Soviet relationship
225

as Secretary General of United Nations
3
,
18
,
204
,
211
,
212
,
213
,
214
–15,
253

U Vinaya
311
,
351

UK
see
Britain

Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) xiii, xiv, xv,
350
,
369

Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA)
303
,
350
–1,
352

attacks and intimidation
324
–5,
351

creation
303
,
324
,
350

Depayin massacre
353
,
356
–9

United Nationalities League for Democracy (UNLD)
268

United Nationals Democratic Party
268

United Nations
18
,
30
,
41
,
150
,
198
,
210
,
211
,
212
,
213
,
216
,
217
,
222
,
224
,
225
,
253
,
367
,
382

Declaration of Human Rights
253

General Assembly
215
,
224

United States
175
,
204
,
212
,
213
,
307
,
320
,
346
,
357
,
370
,
390

Burma relations
308

Burmese fear of
130

election monitor offers rebuffed
262

moral pressure
303

sanctions tightened against Burma
360

withdraws aid to Burma
80

US Campaign for Burma
323

US Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Human Rights
361
–2

Vaillancourt, Josette
206

Vietnam War
29
,
130
,
213
,
381

vipassana meditation
137
,
255

Visit Myanmar Year (1996)
317
,
338
,
339

Vivekananda, Swami
90

Voice, The
364

Warnock, Mary
194
–5

Webb, Jim
384

Weber, Max
287

Wilson, Harold
189

Win Htein, U
136

Win Khut, U
93

Win Sein, U
352

Win Thein
105
,
109
,
123
–4,
125
,
132

Win Tin, U
49
–50,
54
,
55
,
85
,
115
,
146
,
151

arrest and imprisonment
153
,
249
–50

founding member of NLD
85
,
115

support for tourism
323

Wintle, Justin
3
,
4
,
236
,
395

Wordsworth, Elizabeth
192

Working People's Daily
60
,
77
,
98
,
100
,
303

Wunna Maung
352
,
353
,
357
–8

Xiamen (Amoy)
10

Yaydashe
113

Ye Htut, Colonel
269

Yettaw, John William
381
–4

Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA)
8