Word: aung
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Nevertheless, the Clinton Administration has decided after a long review to offer Burma some incentives for better behavior, hoping that one payoff will be serious help in combatting heroin. A U.S. delegation will meet this week in Rangoon with junta leaders, who have just visited opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta has kept her under house arrest since July 1989. Diplomats will continue to emphasize human rights, but "our efforts at pure isolation have not been tremendously successful," acknowledges Robert Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State in charge of narcotics matters. One result of the new policy should...
...Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader in Burma, met with the two generals who govern the country for the first time since she was placed under house arrest five years ago. A government-controlled newspaper described the meeting as "cordial," without giving details. Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent efforts to restore democracy to Burma...
Bangkok -- DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the leader of the Burmese democracy movement, has been held under house arrest by the military government in Burma for more than four years. Last week, when she was allowed to break her silence and meet with U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson of New Mexico, human rights wasn't the only thing on her mind. "She asked me if I thought Michael Jordan was going to make it as a baseball player," says Richardson. "We made a friendly bet -- she bet that he would make...
Denied entry to Burma, eight Nobel peace laureates gathered in Thailand in hopes of bringing attention to the Rangoon regime's miserable human-rights record and to call for the release of a colleague. Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, is in her fourth year of house arrest in Rangoon. "She continues to inspire the people of Burma," said Costa Rica's former President Oscar Arias Sanchez, flanked by Tibet's Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (standing). Mikhail Gorbachev and Mother Teresa, also Peace Prize recipients, sent messages of support...
...manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock heaven. The hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit has become an anthem for apathetic kids . . . Aung San Suu Kyi couldn't pick up her Nobel Peace Prize this year because the regime in Burma (also known as Myanmar) holds her under house arrest, but she provides a beacon of democratic hope to people caught in one of the world's worst remaining tyrannies . . . Luke Perry...