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Lest any of Burma's 21 million eligible voters mistake the military junta's decision to hold parliamentary elections as an invitation for a democratic free-for-all, the government had gone out of its way to hand every advantage to the army-backed National Unity Party. The country's leading dissident, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 44, was barred from running for office and kept under house arrest. Other opposition politicians were similarly disqualified and detained, . and politicking was confined mostly to private homes. The day before last week's election, officials unexpectedly lifted martial law, which had been...
...contested seats. Although final results will not be available for perhaps two weeks, the army- backed party has so far claimed only nine seats. How the remaining parliamentary seats would be apportioned among the other 91 parties was not clear, but it seemed incidental. The future of Burma, renamed Myanmar last June, belongs to the league, if the military leaders who have ruled since 1962 are truly ready to abide by the results and step aside...
...power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain. But unlike some of the others, who stepped into political vacuums only after great coaxing, Aung San Suu Kyi wants to be Prime Minister. The league's campaign paraphernalia included posters, T shirts and buttons that bore her picture and the words MY HEAD IS BLOODY...
...butchery of 1988, which resulted in the massacre of more than 3,000 demonstrators. The league can hope only that the apparent longing for democracy displayed by soldiers at the ballot box will translate into a public show of support for the civilian leaders who stand poised to return Burma to the civilized world...
...flood of China White is being spurred by political chaos and record opium crops in Burma, the main source of raw material for heroin refineries of Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle. "If crack didn't have the attention of the media," says Robert Stutman, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New York field office, "heroin would have been on the front pages of every newspaper in America...