All our successive governments--led by U Nu and Ne Win--did not build any more.

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The last Myanmar leader to visit the White House was the late dictator Ne Win in 1966.

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Although Ne Win resigned in July 1988, the military junta remained firmly in control of the country.

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Did the reclusive Ne Win really order the current military junta to make last November's dramatic changes?

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But, as with Deng, much mystery surrounds Ne Win's condition and his level of influence in the country.

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They prefer the military to believe that Ne Win has approved, if not directed, their more portentous decisions.

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Ne Win came to power by force in 1962 and ruled with an iron fist for 26 years.

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At first, Ne Win probably continued to call the shots behind the scenes.

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Kyaw Ne Win said no, not unless the businessman collected it in person.

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Afterward, Ne Win told Khin Nyunt that corruption had to be rooted out.

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The proposed law would replace even tougher rules established in 1962 by the government of the late dictator Ne Win.

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It's said that when the aging Ne Win dies, Khin Nyunt will lose his greatest source of protection and may be sidelined.

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Now come revealing details from a source close to Ne Win's family.

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Burma's 1962 Printers and Publishers Registration Act is still there -- the act was imposed shortly after former dictator General Ne Win seized power.

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Myanmar's onetime military strongman, Ne Win, at about 85 just six years younger than the Chinese patriarch, is not quite in the same league.

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Ne Win, 86, continues to cast a shadow over the country.

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That's what Ne Win did in what is now Myanmar.

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Last September, Ne Win visited his old chums, Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Indonesia's President Suharto, both of whom reportedly complained about the rampant bribery in Myanmar.

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Students were at the center of a massive popular uprising against then-strongman Ne Win in 1988 and thousands of them joined dissident Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.

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And how much power does Ne Win still wield?

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Next day, over breakfast, I hear a rumor that former dictator Ne Win's grandkids have been involved in a notorious shooting incident on Maykha Road, where the despot lives out his dotage.

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Days later, when the businessman sent an assistant to get the license, the cop called the youth - who turned out to be none other than Kyaw Ne Win, one of the ex-dictator's grandsons.

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When Ne Win seized power in 1962, starting what was to become nearly 50 years of unbroken military rule, he announced the "Burmese Way to Socialism", an inward-looking philosophy that cut the country off from foreign influence and nationalised all land and industry.

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Just who is Ne Win?

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