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Air Force 72 Militarisation, mobility and the residencies of power had failed to bomb it. Later, it suffered serious earthquake damage in the 1970s and was demolished in 1985 on the orders of General Ne Win, the military dictator of Burma.75 Some government houses, however, could be relatively modest, as on Caribbean islands such as Barbados or Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.76 In the latter the original government house is now a museum with a newer, but also relatively modest, version built next door. But even on a remote island like St Helena, the