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...Generals' Shame Thank you for using the names Burma, Burmese and Rangoon [May 26]. Those names are precious to all democracy-loving people inside and outside the country. Myanmar, Myanmarese and Yangon are names that belong to the military junta and its followers, who have turned Burma upside down in the same way Hitler did with Germany in the '30s and '40s. Kathy May, Anaheim, California...
...Making Nice Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's offer to hold direct talks with the leaders of Iran and North Korea gave me an idea: perhaps Obama could visit Burma and persuade General Than Shwe to accept full-scale international aid [May 26]. This would be a good warm-up exercise and would give Obama a taste of negotiating with a stubborn, psychopathic dictator. Ohn Kyaw, Withcott, Queensland...
...recent earthquake in China and the cyclone in Burma, not to mention the battery of tornadoes and wildfires ripping through the U.S. this season, remind us that disasters are part of the human condition. We are more or less vulnerable to them, depending where we live...
...Helping Burma...
Thank you for using the names burma, Burmese and Rangoon [May 26]. Those names are precious to all democracy-loving people inside and outside the country. Myanmar, Myanmarese and Yangon are names that belong to the military junta and its followers who have turned Burma upside down in the same way Hitler did with Germany in the '30s and '40s. Kathy May, ANAHEIM, CALIF...