BURMA NOT MUCH LEFT TO NATIONALIZE BURMA'S DICTATOR NE WIN, 52, MUST 
HATE GETTING UP IN THE MORNING . WHAT HE RISES TO 
FACE EACH DAY IS A NATION OF 22 MILLION PEOPLE PLAGUED 
BY AT LEAST FIVE SEPARATE REBELLIONS, RANGING FROM THE KACHIN TRIBESMEN, 
WHO WANT AUTONOMY, TO THE RED FLAG COMMUNISTS, WHO ARE SO 
FANATICAL THAT THEY THINK EVEN CHINA'S MAO TSE-TUNG IS " TOO 
MODERATE . " BURMESE BUSINESSMEN BITTERLY RESENT THE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY 
; PEASANTS GRUMBLE AT THE COLLECTIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE ; BUDDHIST MONKS 
PROTEST THAT GOVERNMENT EXPROPRIATION OF THE RICH ROBS THEM OF ENDOWMENTS 
. NE WIN'S LATEST ENEMIES ARE THE STUDENTS WHO, SPURRED ON 
BY THE COMMUNISTS, LAST WEEK STAGED DEMONSTRATIONS AND RIOTS ALL OVER 
THE COUNTRY . SAFE CONDUCT . DURING THE PAST FOUR MONTHS, 
NE WIN HAS DESPERATELY TRIED TO MAKE PEACE WITH BURMA'S ASSORTED 
REBELS . HE GUARANTEED SAFE CONDUCT FOR POLITICAL AND TRIBAL LEADERS 
FROM AND TO THEIR SWAMP AND JUNGLE HIDEOUTS . RESULTS WERE 
DISCOURAGING . NE WIN COMPLAINED THAT THE REBELS PARTICULARLY THE COMMUNISTS 
ONLY WANTED TO BUY TIME IN WHICH TO REGROUP, REARM AND 
PREPARE NEW OFFENSIVES . HE BROKE OFF THE TALKS, LET THE 
LEADERS RETURN TO THEIR JUNGLE CAMPS AND THEN BEGAN A POLICE 
ROUNDUP OF 1,400 LEFTISTS OF ALL SHADES . TO PROVE HE 
HAD CIVILIAN SUPPORT SOMEWHERE, NE WIN HAD ARMY TRUCKS PICK UP 
SOME 20,000 WORKERS FOR A " SPONTANEOUS " RALLY IN RANGOON 
. AT THAT POINT THE STUDENTS WENT INTO ACTION, LED AN 
ASSAULT ON THE RALLY, THROWING STONES, RIPPING UP PLACARDS AND SETTING 
ONE ARMY TRUCK AFIRE TO SHOUTS OF, " WE DON'T WANT 
THIS GOVERNMENT ! " WHEN NE WIN ORDERED THE CLOSING DOWN 
OF RANGOON UNIVERSITY LAST WEEK, THE STUDENTS, LED BY LEFTIST AGITATORS, 
BARRICADED THE GATES AND STAGED A SIT-IN . BULLDOZERS ORDERED OUT 
TO SMASH THE BARRICADES WERE BEATEN BACK WITH HURLED STONES, AND 
FIRE HOSES FAILED BECAUSE OF INSUFFICIENT WATER PRESSURE . FINALLY, TOUGH 
RIOT POLICE WITH TEAR GAS DISLODGED THE STUDENTS . THREE OTHER 
UNIVERSITIES AT BASSEIN, MOULMEIN AND MANDALAY WERE PADLOCKED BY THE GOVERNMENT 
. SHAVEN HEAD . NE WIN'S ONLY VISIBLE SUPPORT REMAINS THE 
50,000-MAN BURMESE ARMY, BUT THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT EVEN THIS LAST 
BULWARK IS BEING UNDERMINED ; POPULAR BRIGADIER AUNG GYI, WHO DISAGREES 
WITH NE WIN'S POLICIES, IS IN EXILE IN A BUDDHIST MONASTERY 
WHERE, HIS HEAD SHAVEN, HE SPENDS HIS TIME MEDITATING . AT 
WEEK'S END THE STUDENT TURMOIL CONTINUED, AND INSURGENTS STEPPED UP THEIR 
ATTACKS ON POLICE OUTPOSTS AND ARMY CONVOYS . IN HEAVILY GUARDED 
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, NE WIN WAS STILL HARD AT WORK PUSHING HIS 
HEADLONG, HEADSTRONG COURSE TOWARD SOCIALISM . LAST WEEK HE NATIONALIZED 17 
MORE PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION OF BURMA AND A 
TAILORS ASSOCIATION . AFTER ALL, THERE'S NOT MUCH LEFT TO NATIONALIZE 
NOT EVEN THE RED CROSS OR THE BOY SCOUTS, BOTH OF 
WHICH WERE TAKEN OVER MONTHS AGO . 