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...with more than 200 members. Dozens of journalists, rarely granted access to the country by the military government, had been invited in. As TIME went to press, what had been strongly rumored for days?that Suu Kyi would be freed, and details of an agreement between her and the junta announced?had yet to occur. But all the signs pointed to a breakthrough delayed, not denied. "We are certain she will be released," said NLD vice chairman Tin Oo, "but we can't say when...
...timing matters a lot less than the fact that Suu Kyi's release is essential if the stop-start negotiations between her and the junta, already ongoing for 18 months, are to yield any results. This is make-or-break time, and more so for the junta than for Suu Kyi. She has little to lose?after all, her legitimacy (as the leader of the party that won the 1990 general election), integrity and stoic acceptance of house arrest enable her to occupy the moral high ground. The generals, on the other hand, are under growing pressure to thrash...
SENTENCED. THOMAS JUNTA, 44, hockey dad who beat to death another father at a Massachusetts ice rink; to a 6-to-10-year prison term for involuntary manslaughter...
...Western aid worker. The rate has since fallen, but it's not a sign of improvement. Rather, it's a reflection of the earlier devastation. World Vision is one of the few nongovernmental organizations to brave international condemnation for working under, and inevitably sometimes with, Burma's military junta to try to counter trafficking and its effects in the area. One of its workers says that since 1997, out of 400 AIDS patients it registered in the nine village districts around Kentung, 380 have died. The government tries to hide the reality, but even where deaths are counted, the embarrassed...
...Burma has long been a pariah state - a target of human rights activists worldwide after the military junta slaughtered democracy protesters in 1988 and voided the 1990 election. Increasingly isolated economically, the regime has dramatically expanded its reliance on forced civilian labor for infrastructure and revenue-generating projects. By 1996 an estimated 3% of Burma's GDP was the fruit of conscripted gangs. In an additional, cruel twist, many of the soldiers themselves - part of a mobilization that expanded the army from 185,000 troops to nearly half a million today - were little more than child slaves. Sein...