Sunday, 07 February 2021_Thousands of people have staged street protests for a second day in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, in an outburst of anger towards the military junta’s coup and detention of civilian leaders.
The president’s man in Tehran was feeling the pressure and needed reassurance. On 12 January 1979, General Robert “Dutch” Huyser wrote to Harold Brown, US secretary of defense, and General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to make sure he knew what they wanted him to do.