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continue. >> in the book and the islam challenge. mohamed daadaoui describes the impact the moroccan impact has had on the society and politics in the cut. country. we talked to him from oklahoma city, oklahoma. >> my book on the more row key is on the symbolic power. it is a book that studies the socials of the -- of the monarchy and the reasons for the survival for centuries. monarchy has witnessed a remarkable, longevity. dynasty or family in syria. it's two different families. in this the current, more row can so my book looks at the causes for this survival

especially since the priest independs era from 1956 and the french colonial rule from 1965, again my book looks at how the monarchy managed to create a new form of based on the traditional and religious power used in what i call the richalls of power. for example, the monarch claimed to be the command of the faithful. he always the monarchy every year has the yield spectacle of allegiance. i look at the rituals and the symbols and how the ridge men manufactured them and produced them and reproduced them in order to actually create a --

awhat's important about the power itself is this a it's hinders the app legislation of forces. -- from launching a challenge or threat to the regime in more row koa. the monarchy even in the arab spring today. the symbolic power managed to keep the monarchy in a sense clear of all of these tidal waives. >> more row koa is a north of a fran country. it is an arab country. the african continent with diverse populations in the majorities i would say about 56% is arabic about 46% is burr burr. as they say, these are again, the local indigenous population

that preexisted the arab, you know, invasion in the 9th century ad. great deal of stability. looked as the marvelous ability in the middle east and north africa. but more row key is at -- has he has tremendous religious power. not only the temporal ruler but spiritual rulers of the country. the country holds about 33 million people. large ak agricultural economic system. tremendous, i would say,

associate economic gaps. that was one of the underlying thing they share with north africa in the arab uprising that we witnessed in the last year. rate about 21% depending on the source unemployment rate. what is called the -- the majority of the population is under the age of 25 years old. again, these are these kind of toxic mixes that made the whole region unstable as of, you know, recent year. but mor row koa was enjoyed a great deal of success as a regime in a dense dealing or justify setting the tide the arabic. the large part because of the role of the monarchy in the political system. and because of the by the regime and the state.

which is called the are mor row koa because that's when they launched it. february 20th to 11. there are -- you know, the regime and the state has largely in a sense managed to weather the arab uprising. it goes back to my argument in the book is because the tremendous and the ritual public discourse that the monarchy has, you know, undergone for years and for decades. not just in the last year or so. the second -- which, i think a lot of callers, call it monarch playerty. i think that's a little bit of a facet argument. popularity is not the same thing as legacy in the sense they talk about it in my book. another reason why may have managed to weather this the storm so for a with a because of

the, you know, you know, there were some cosmetic and largely, you know, meaningless reforms that were performed by the monarchy. but they played in a role. in a sense they pass fied the population. they managed to take away the anger and anxiety in the street. and repack j you know what our large buy listic constitutional change is in june or last year into the massive movement progress towards democracy. but this is any -- i don't think it is the medium for changes. nothing has changed despite the fact that monarchy launch constitutional changes which was rad fied and approved in a popular referendum. they voted yes for the constitutional changes. but if we look at the constitutional changes, they don't change the configuration

of the regimeerer us is state society of relations. the monarch has the tremendous powers over the religious realm, he has control over foreign policy, over the military. he has discretionary powers. powers of decree. so again, as the prime minister has certain powers right now in order -- in terms of policy making but all of that, of course cube subjected to a monarch discretionary vote tow. again, not a lot of things have changed. i think the third reason why i think the monarchy too justify set the challenge of the arab uprising is the because of the nature of the movement. the february 20th movement has been a rag tag movement. they set by divisions, by arguments but then between itself own leaders it has always been discredited by at regime as

a movement to seeks in a sense topple the regime or change the configuration of the state. and i don't think that was, you know, accurate. again, it was part of the state propaganda to the movement. they were successful in doing so. if you look at the movement, it's largely been reduced to a min nigh rites here and there every week. it's not sizable in a way that can create any challenges to the regime of states. i was there in june of last year, and i went to such demonstration, it was not a lot of people. it was about 100 to 300 people. the police were facilitied through the passage of the main city streets. and i was, you know, in the sense interested in seeing that a lot of people on the side were watching this. they run into the movement while the monarch has called up for

reforms, we cannot change the constitution at this time. of course before the referendum. that should be a -- that should be is a sphaer at the time. in massive ways like tunisia and especially? egypt to bring about certain meaningful changes. the movement started in a sense larger than what it is. it is the reverse example of the egyptian too knee shan case. the the first february 20th, 2011, and of course, every week after that, there were larger, there were thousands of people in some accounts about 10, 15, 10,000 people depending on the city. throughout the capitol city, then again. the man ark i can was almost the civilian in how they deal with.

in one of the first regimes to respond quote, unquote, respond to the movement or the monarchy. one of the first thing they did they gave a speech on march 9. immediately after that march 9th, 2011. they pledged massive reforms what they called democratic reforms. being a -- i'm not sure what the concept means. it was new for moroccans for the thing that is talking in the language of the democratic in a reform involving the monarchy itself. in the past we talk about reforms they're talking about the other, you know, the political parties and the political system, and the monarchy or civil society. but not as the monarchy as part of the reforms itself. what it did to the movement, it actually drove the movement. and in a sense, made the public

in the society rally behind monarchy. they did not too knee shan system or the or the robotic regime in egypt responded to the libyan responded in violence. and represumptuous. there was a little bit of violence here and there in the -- but it was not the scale of the gips and the libyan case or the syrian case today. so again, in that sense the movement lost the monumental early on. since then, they could never seem not able to regain that momentum. especially after the passage of the constitutional changes. despite the fact that mor row african north african states, you know, the associate gaps.

higher literacy rates 51% ill literate. talking about the lack of, you know, hope in the future especially for the young population. and again, the prevalence of capitalism most of the sectors are controlled by the palace or families holding related to the palace itself. again, it's remarkable in the sense in the mack villain sense how they managed to in a sense, offset the arab spring in marrow koa. it's difficult for us to predict in the future. because always tend to be wrong with whatever we do that. so i don't know. i mean, i would say that the monarchy so for a is a view from that.

at some point they will have to deal with consequences of not offering reforms. knew it seems to carry in especially because the status. i keep coming back to this my book's argument. because of the status of the monarchy. i think it is a paralegal. i'm not going to say it's unique. more has to be done to study the systems in the middle east. in the middle east, if you look at something right now. it's interesting monarchy don't see angry by the uprising as much as the republican states. i think that merits a little bit of investigation examination maybe. we should look at what makings them as and survive and compare this to the moroccan case. it's remarkable because he has the unique religion traditional that cannot be replicated or parallelled elsewhere. i'm sure the monarched in the

gulf region or jordon has certain traditional or triable forces. but i think those need to be investigated. go back to the moroccan is -- i would probably, if i was a gambling man say yes. i probably place my bed bet on the monarchy. why wouldn't anybody? sustained by the argument that this is a monarchy that stood the test of time for three or four centuries right now. stood the test of the modernization theory in 1950st and '60s. but the manner arks were facing the king's delimb ma. because of modernization they would have to change their traditional ways otherwise they would face extinction, you know, but again they haven't. so i would say, yeah, they are safe for now. at some point they would have to

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riley, that's tenth. you can find more on these best sellers by going to "wall street journal".com. >> this book is about the origins and the modern communications seen through the adventures that spent their careers working through bell laboratories. it is about invasion. about how it happens, why it happens and who makes it happen. it is like wise about why invasion matters not the scientist, engineering and corporate executives. but all of us. the story is about the and more specifically about life with the labs between the late 19350s and mid 1970s. in the coincidence. in the decades before the country's best minds began migrating to the west to california. many of them came east to energy where they worked in brick and glass buildings locating on grassy campuses where deer would grace. at the peak of the reasonnation. the lab employed about 15,000

people. including some 1200 phd. it fkded the world's most brilliant and eccentric. in a time before google it was where the future which we happen to call the present conceived and -- the lab was the most innovative scientific organization in the world. in many ways, we like to think it happened right here within the just a stone throw of the building. is it fair to think of the bell labs as silicon valley before that? >> i think so. it did all happen here and there. it happened there a little bit before it happenedded here. and and i think so. some of the thing that you see now in the valley, i think, the kind of freedom given engineers and researchers, the small teams attacking big problems within the larger ecosystem that could

help support them with advice with money all sorts of other things. i think a lot that goes back to the kind of formula bell labs the near term thinking and long-term thinking as john said in the introduction. and giving an an ton my to the capable. >> give us some sense of all of the things that came out of the bell labs in the gror i are years. john mentioned the things that are exhibited here at the museum. but the list is impressive. rattle off some of the things that grew out of that. >> sure. bell labs began in 192525, as the research and development wing of the telephone company. but a lot of my book is focused on the post war years. it began in 1948 with the invention of the tran sister by john and walter. pretty soon after bill came with

up the tran sister and a host of other kinds of things. prof if is followed. after that, a lot happened in the very quick success. there was a silicon solar cell for instance in 1954 which is the precursor for solar panels today. digital communications. looking at coding and channel capacity. communications satellites were originally designed and begun at bell labs the first was the echo satellite which was a passive so-called satellite and the star one which was a communication sat lie. the operating system of the language came out of bell lanes in the early '60s. the charged coupled device which is the fundamental unit for digital photography and the cell phones. the laser, a lot of the semiconductor room temperature

lasers came out of bell which are essential to fiberoptic communications as well as they're in every dvd player. it was a pretty big list. >> and how did that happen to come out of bell? what's the significance of the name? what's in the name. how did that matter that would lead to that trail of all of those thing that you described. >> a little bit of history probably helps. the bell lab actually was formed after the phone company had been around for 45 years. at&t was a monopoly they controlled 80 to 90% of the telephone companies. they were a vertically innovated country. they owned western electric as well. in the early years in the beginning of the 20th century. the parent company had the own

engineering department. there was a bit of tension between the two. in 18925 they agreed they would create the stand-alone lab as the bottom box on the vertical stack of a company. so ideas would come out of bell labs and development. they would be transferred to western electric. the manufacturing part of the company and eventually they would be deployed by at&t which controlled the long distance lines as well as 23 parts of the operating telephone companies. >> some of the problems they had -- you read a lot about it being a problem-rich environment. i want to spend some time talking about that. give us a sense of the early problems. there wasn't a dial tone. there were very basic problems that had to be solved. >> everything. the early phones used batteries. there was no ringers. there was no hang up things. the amount of detail that went

into deserving operator headsets for the women who sat at switchboards, teams of people would work on the problems for years. teams of chemists as i talk about in the book would work on the sheathing for cables. other teams would work on the insulation between the two. there was a level of detail, an amount of work that was pretty much endless. the problems ceft proliferating. >> was it the first time when science was deployed to solve those sorts of product problems? >> there was. , i mean, there was a very small research department at the beginning. again, bell labs was not a huge amount of people. there was about 150 to 15% of them were work anything basic research. a mast majority were working at qooment. they were mostly engineers where most of the science phd. were in

the research department. basic department started out very small. in the book i talk about how the great screes with the repeater to the early vacuum tubes that could amplify phone signals in the early part of the 20th century gave credibility to the small research department of bell labs. they exceeded in deploying a cross country phone length. and then on, the research department at bell labbings grow and grew as it worked fundamentally on science. >> you can watch this and other programs online at book tv.org. >> and now joining us on book tv on c-span 2 is dr. jew dit. she is most recently the author of this book, "sexual sabotage, how one mad scientist unleashed a playing of corruption on america." who was this the mad scientist? >> a lot of people know who is

by now. that would be dr. al friday. the founder of the kin sei substitute which is still alive and rushing along. he's not alive. he's gone to the reward. but it's still going on. and bloomington, indiana at the indiana university. and the reproduction kin sei substitute and he was a man who was involved in the sexual torture of hundreds of children. i keep trying to say that is not a reliable scientist. it's been a little bit difficult to get a that across. >> very quickly remind us about the report and where he came from and how he developed that whole -- >> sure. worldworld war ii was over. officially in '45. our guys were returning from overseas. they were traumatized. the nation was traumatized. a couple of years later 1948 the book comes out sexual behavior

in the human male. the propaganda, around it was marketing propaganda, was this man, this great conservative scientist was going to tell the american public the truth about all of us what we were doing sexually what our grandparents were doing sexually and our participants were doing sexually and then he was going to reveal the real facts and list the kurt tan off what we were hiding all this time. we were a bunch of sexual adventures and mommy and daddy were involved in various kinds of adult try and everybody was doing bizarre things. the public didn't necessarily believe it. a lot of professors certainly did. it was picked up in universities awe over the country and from there it filtered down to every place. >> who funded? >> the rockefeller foundation. not only funded his study.

when he was get anything big trouble with congress. they shifted the money from kin disci into the american -- which is why i'm here and the law school. because our law law laws were gutted based on the trades ever frauds. >> why did you call him a conservative scientist? >> because they defined him as conservative. americans would never have accepted a man who was as -- he was a biohome sexual. he was having sex with his students, he was having sex miking pornography up in his attic and in the university. he was engaged in so many crazy things in things that brought about -- which was damage to his lower regions because he was so abusive to himself. this is not a normal guy. and he certainly was the major,

major proponent of the idea that children are sexual from birth and they can be unharmed by sex with adults. >> given this happened in 1948, are there lasting effects to the studies? >> huge. absolutely huge. i had no idea when i started on the thing. i really didn't. i just copied off his charts and graphs with the little two month old baby and the little 5-year-old and all these things are being done to the children and calling them orgasms around the clock. i copied them off and sent it to my colleagues as, you know, as the ethical field of scientists. i thought, okay. i'll do something else. they'll take care of. that was in 1980. they didn't take care of it. it took me years to figure out why. it turned out that, yes, the research became the foundation for major changes. major every major change in our

sex laws and have gone through to today globally. i came back in a global tour, he is everywhere. in china, indeed. and in switzerland and in sweden, and in holland, the netherlands. he has been a foundational change for the west. worldwide. >> when you sea he's in china, what do you mean by that? >> quell, there's a book this a the substitute put out in 2007 called the man who changed the world. and they translated that into chinese. it sold a ton of copies. i was contact by some chinese professors who asked me they said they looked everywhere for something contradicting. sexual change is among the chinese youth. they said, wow, sex, drugs, rock and roll. we can do that too.

they contacted me and asked me if they could translate my book into chinese. as some kind of response to the fraud that was in the research. by the way, remember william neeson appeared as him in the fox feature film. he was the wonderful man who did all the good things for him. so no, he's everywhere. the swiss did a major documentary last year identifying him as the basis for their horrific sex education programs in switzerland. and z i said i came back from the philippines. he's involved in every aspect. he's a guy who revolutionaried sex for us and said you could do all the things things with new downside. okay. people we had some serious downsides. you know, we have a pentagon now. how many guys who are were found using child pornography in the pentagon. we have judges who have been

picked up. presidents of universities. we have a ton of people football coaches and so forth. people are being told it was always like this. well, i have news for you. it was not always like this. >> when did you first get interested in the research you're doing. >> it comes down too something like this. it was personal. i was living in a little world writing for kangaroos, singing songs, doing television for cbs, and my daughter was sexual assaultly by a 13 years old boy. and i began to look around and say wait a minute, how did it happen it made no sense. and, following that trail, lead me to dr. kinsey who lead me to

huge heaver in who lead me into looking into the pornography issue. which made me the principle -- children crime and violence. there we are. >> should pornography be outlawed? >> yes. >> yes. we can go back to the original. it was, you know. it was at one time. and we don't losing in by going back to that. it had a huge impact of child sexual abuse. no question about that. i won in the netherlands where i said that, i was on television, in the netherlands, i said that playboy had been producing child pornography and had been conditioning people for research doj since at least the '50s depending how you looked at. playboy sued me. they won't see me here. they would never sue me here.

give us a jury trial here. and the judge looked at all the document takes, the images of the child, in bed with daddy or whoever and said no. she's right. you know, they lose. >> where and where did you get your phd. what is in? >> k swiss university in cleveland, ohio. 1980, i think or '79. i'm getting to old to remember the things. it was on communication in the way which mass media changes the human brain and changes the human being and changes the culture. >> and you're doing here at liberty university? >> i am bringing my wide knowledge to the faculty here and they have taken my archive which is massive in the next room. and thousands of books and many,

many thousands of documents, so that there will be a home for this material and be able to at least have a record of this whole history of the history of the sexual revolution as it was changed in the united states in the western world. >> sexual sabotage is the third book? >> it fends on how you count. third or fourth. >> you're working on another? >> yes. the fallout in terms of child sexual abuse which is massive pandemic. >> jude i.t. joining us. sexual sabotage how one mad scientist unleashed a playing of corporation on america has been our guest. thank you. it was a delight to talk with you. appreciate it. >>set joans documents the war against iraq since 9/11 in hunt anything the shadows.

he's interviewed bay reporter. tonight at 10:00 eastern. also this weekend, your questions and comments for tom broke haw in depth. sunday live at noon eastern. book tv every weekend on c-span 2. >> i'm going to tell you a personal story today, and it's something that i normally don't do. but the story that i'm going to tell you is in large part with what motivated me to write the second book, what it is like to go to war. and one of the things i talk about in that second book is that or culture has basically got some kind of an agreement. i call it sort of the code of silence about what goes on in combat. what really goes on when our nation asks our kids to go out and kill other kids. no i'm not pass cyst.

we don't want to think about it. my family is the same as all families. i was 50 years old when i found out my father had fought in the battle of the bulge. dad, you know, wasn't that a big deal. he never asked me. i'd get all kinds of story. i got drunk in normandy and that sort of stuff. what it is that, you know, our culture is very good on don't whine. don't whine. and you don't brag. don't brag. in combat veteran will tell you 95 percent of the time things you want to whine about. it doesn't leave you much to talk about in the culture. so one of the things they was hoping to do with the brooke is start breaking that down a little bit. a little personal history. i grow up in a small town in

seaside, oregon. it was a smiewl town. back when i grew up, i think virtually all fathers had been in a world war ii. and we called it the service back then. that was in the uncle was in the service. i think that again, our culture is starting to make a change. i don't hear the service anymore. i hear it called the military. i think that is an interesting switch in language that is happening. that we should think about. and i got a scholarship to yale. and -- and joined the marines because, you know, that was the sort of the thing to do. guys in the high school football team joined me the marines. i wanted to be like them. i joined something called plc program. it is sort of marine rotc. they don't pay you. you get run through boot camp. the people who survive that go to college as reservist. you don't get paid, but you're a

marine. that sounded likes a good deal. and then i got a scholarship, and i thought i wouldn't be able to go. i wrote a letter and they said that's fine, take it. i was there about six weeks and i started to feel guilty because guys they served with and trained with and kids from my own high school had been over there. we lost five boys from my high school in vietnam. here i am drinking beer and having a wonderful time with the english girls. i felt like i was hiding. i went to the war. we were stationed in the jungle in the mountains, wait up where the dmz meets the border. i was the platoon commander. eventually the executive officer of the company. after i got shot a couple of times. they figured he is too stupid.

they put me in the backseat of the spotter planes. he said how did you get air medals? i wrote this book, what it is like to go to war for several reasons. the audience was young people who are considering makes the milling tear a career. military a career. i wanted to reach them. i adopt want any are romantics joining the armed force. i want people join it with clear his and eyes. i wrote it for veterans. i had to struggle with a lot of things. if i struggle -- somebody reading it might be helped. i wanted to write it for the general public and our policy makers. i think it's very important that we understand that we are involved very deeply in our wars.

but we tend to think we're not. i opened the book with a quote from bismarck, and one of my favorite quotes. and bismarck said, you know, any fool can learn from their own mistakes. i prefer to learn from other people's mistakes. athought, if i can put some of the mistakes down they learned the hard way. maybe someone else would do it. here's where i launch into the story. we were on an assault, and going up a very steep hill bip this time had broken down into chaos. as soon as the first shot is fired. the plan goes poof, the way it gets down individual 18 and 19-year-old marines know what the objective is. that's how it works. and two hand grenades came flying off.

i nod knocked unconscious. i was functioning but i was mess. and we threw two grenades back. boom. two more came flying out from the top hole above us. we were scrambling uphill. we three two back. finally the lieutenant figures out we're going to have two grenades left. this is not smart. i told the two guys that were with me. next time you throw one, i'm going to be around the side. i'll be a position to shoot the guys when they have to stand up to throw them back at us. i worked my way around the side of the hill. and they could see one of the soldiers was already dead. and the other one was, you know, just like us, he was a kid. late teens, and and our eyes locked, this is a very unusual thing in combat.

you generally don't really lock eyes with the people you're about to kim. he-- kill he was no further away from me than the third or fourth row. i remember speaking and wishing i could speak the language. if you don't throw it, i won't pull the trigger. he snarled at me and threw it. i pulled the trigger. and at that moment, i didn't feel a thing. in fact, i remember being slightly grinned because anticipated the recoil of the rifle and bucked it a little bit, because, you know, drill senior gents kick you in the rear end doing what they call bucking your shot. it hit the dirt slightly and went into him after that. and of course, battle still going on. years later, about ten years later, i was in one of these california sort of groups they

had, you remember the california stuff about getting in touch with your feelings. no one heard of pptsd. >> i was trying to get in touch of my feelings. my wife brought me. the leader turns on me scene said, you know, go about. i understand you were in the vietnam war. yeah. and she said, well, how do you feel about that? i said, you know, -- the typical answer. she said, why don't we start talking about it. she asked me to apologize to the kid they shot. and i'm game, i said okay, i'll do that. and i start to think about that kid, and, you know, the kid did have a mother or a sister or whatever. and i started to cry. and i started to bawl, i mean, i

started cry soggy so hard. my ribbed ached. i couldn't stop crying for three days. i'd go to work and provide too leave and go outside. i'd have to walk around. i managed to shove that down again. i got five kids to raise. at that time, i only had a couple. and fine, everything is cool again, you know, about 1990 i'm driving down i5 around are two in the morning. it's a wonderful veteran's thing. you're by yourself you have the dash board in front of you and country music on the radio. and no one can ow touch you. you're trying to get somewhere. the two eyes appeared on the windshield right in front of me. i knew i'm not crazy, but it was like, karl, you're going to have to deal with this. >> you can watch this online another book tv.org.

up next peter talks about the the long time opposition leader and noble was electedded to lower house of the burr merse parliament. in researching the book, he took trips to beer ma and interviewed him. direct -- and i want to welcome you all it's a great pleasure to present an important and authorityive new buy oog if i of one of the most compelling figures of the last twenty five years. the current em brieonic transaction exceeds in bringing that country back from the quarter century of reprecious and stagnation and status. a cigarette deal of the credit will be owing to aung san suu

kyi. she was propelled from the on security of the english academic life to become leader of the burr mas democracy movement in following her party 1990 victory in the subsequent military crack down. he's spent most of the next two decades in under house arrest began i did and tell nelson before her exceeded in making her an even more po end and important idol of her country. knew she's happily come out of confinement and will compete in the upcoming election. the world world is watching to see what the next chapter of this great story will be. this excellent book the lady and the peacock the life of aung san suu kyi will be remain an indies penceble part of that story. it will be on sale afterwards in back of the hall, i hope you'll buy it and the author peter will

be happy to sign it for you. we're happy to have him with us tonight. he brings frequently and reported from a ton of places. the author of tokyo, the city at the end of the world. i'm happy to say that asia society has been able to make important contributions which continue to informing the policy dialogue in the united states and asia and to helping directly through tract two and other initiatives to bring about a democratic transition. we're delighted to have the architect of the efforts and asia vice president for global policy programs. to conduct the conversation with peter. suzanne is coauthor with the asia society report advance the transaction away forward for u.s. policy. which i think you'll find copies of on your chair. i urge you all to read it. it's a really excellent and

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answer, please be sure to wake for the microphone. we may have questions for the online viewers. if we do, any of you watching, feel free to write into moderator. of course, turn off your cell phones if you have them. and welcome, please peter and suzanne. peter will pretty first and suzanne will join him for discussion. >> thanks. good evening. lovely to see so many people hear today. i've been thinking about visiting burma for more than twenty years, and i've been writing this book for --

i was in the process of research and writing it for five or six years before it was actually finished. but certainly burma has never been so interesting and important as it is at this particular moment. i feel very fortunately to have found a american publisher with the energy and gumption to get out at exactly the right moment. and to the asian society for having the kindness and to welcome me to talk about it. i thought i'd read a few pages from my book about the election of 1909. the cusp of, you know, the election on sunday the 1st of april. it is only the the third such election since 1990. multiparty election, 1990 election and 2010, and the by

election which we fold id by another general election in 015. i thought looking back 22 years to the first appearance of aung san suu kyi not on the ballot papers. she was barred from standing. the first appearance of her party, and what transpired. on sunday, may 27th 1990, aung san suu kyi cast her vote in her country's first free general election for thirty years. the ballot paper was put into an envelope which was saled and taken from her home by a regime official. to most foreign sobers, -- for the weeks the media has been

scrutinize the upcoming poll in fkding it was bound to be rigged. the military had done everything in their power to ensure a good result, a win for the national unity party, the tame approximatey party as the bspp the beer ma socialist party. the top leadership the national league of democracy had been put out of aung san suu kyi on house arrest on july 20th 1989. the retired general who was chairman of the party and been detained the same day was someoned to three years hard labor in december and taken to jail. most of that closest colleagues been jailed, and would not reemerge for years.

the party was not run by a skeleton staff of those who remained at liberty lead by aung san suu kyi aged 72 the wisecracking former counselor who had been one of the first people to join aung san suu kyi two summers before. in january, the regime sought to neutralize a threat by barring from her as standing as a candidates because of her marriage to a foreigner. a new rule. her image was everywhere in the nld's campaign on banners, tvs, scarves, cassette tapes of had speeches were sold for market stores but the lady herself was formally locked away. general -- head of military intelligence on the second most powerful man in

two long speeches give them the message that the party was a men nans to the country's future. on august 5 he repeated the claim that nld had been infill straited by communist. the following month at the press conference, he made the die met click allegation suing the party at the international rightist conspiracy involving powerful foreign countries. the speakers later publicked the 300 page book with the catchy title, the conspiracy of treason minons and traders. e mas emasculating the manufacturing the with good result. the state law and order restoration counsel now set about tackling remaining challenges with military

foreigners. other enemies of army rule were under house arrest including prime minister. the regime identified city neighbors with a high proportion of opposition supporters and broke them up. in the months leading up to the election, at least half million people around the country were forced to abandon their homes and move to crudely constructed and disease ridden townships for a away. practically all conventional forms of campaigning incoming rallies, door to door lobbying and media interviews were banned. criticism of the military was a criminal offense. gathers of more than five people remained illegal under the rules. though each party of the 93 registered for the poll was allowed to hold a single rally on condition of seven days notice given.

each was also permitted a single preapproved 10 minute statement on television and 15 minutes on state radio. to make sure the heavens were on their side, the regime made sure to pick a good day, may 28th contained a ton of lucky s. the fact that femme in the fourth -- forth week of the fifth month. an offer from the u.s. to send election monitors was rebuffed and all foreigners were banned from the country for weeks before the election. on the eve of polling, the generals could be well pleased with the handy work. had been through the ringer in the past 24 months since no ends crashed decision to demontize the currency then throw a spanner into the constitutional

arrangements by raising the possibility of multiparty elections. but since the looking lock of that woman, as they referred to aung san suu kyi he refused to pronounce her name. the situation had moved all around. the socialist ideology which condition policy for a generation was consigned to the waste bin along with the bspb and burma reopened for business. some western countries may have found it awkward dealing on normal trade determines with a country that had slaughtered thousands of the unarmed citizens in cold blood. thailand, singapore, and south korea had no such inhibition snapping up contract the to extract precious stones and seafood at bargain prices. a south creern company became