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...Emerald Forest" earned director John Boorman stripes as an adventurer with an eye for pictorial rapture and social turmoil. But in "Beyond Rangoon," an improbable tale of an American damsel-doctor caught amidst the genocidal Burmese civil war, Boorman "lapses into banal visual stereotyping," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "The rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura (played by Patricia Arquette), who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician...
...conceived simply. Few could understand this better than Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's chief dissident and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Placed under house arrest by a military junta in 1989, Suu Kyi spent six years confined to her family's deteriorating lakeside bungalow in Rangoon. At any time, she was free to join her husband and two children in London -- knowing that the generals would never allow her back. That was a definition of freedom she refused to accept. When the junta abruptly announced last week that Suu Kyi, 50, was free after 2,190 days...
...world's most repressive military regimes,stunned the international community by abruptly freeingAung San Suu Kyi-- Nobel peace prize winner and champion of the southeast Asian country's democracy movement -- from six years of house arrest. As hundreds of supporters gathered in a light rain outside her home in Rangoon, historically laconic military leaders merely noted that her sentence had expired. "No one expected this to happen," saysTIME's Sandra Burton, in the Burmese capital. "The move indicates far greater confidence on the part of the junta that neither Suu Kyi nor the people will rush to overthrow it." That...
DIED. U NU, 87, former Prime Minister of Burma (now Myanmar); in Rangoon. U Nu was named the country's first Prime Minister in 1947, a year before independence. A popular politician, he promoted nonalignment abroad and democracy at home-but discord within his government led General Ne Win to seize power in 1962. U Nu proclaimed himself Prime Minister of a "parallel government" when pro-democracy activity pushed aside Ne Win in 1988, but the military quickly placed U Nu under house arrest. Released in 1992, he spent his last years in seclusion...
That interest remained keen after Burton moved back to Hong Kong to take up a regional reporting beat that entails travel from Islamabad to Borneo, from Rangoon to the disputed Spratly Island of Layang Layang. With the collaboration of current TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz and correspondent Mia Turner, Burton kept current on the Chinese environmental saga, and the Three Gorges piece, which appears in this issue, is the result...