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...services to the FBI in the early 1960s, when both were attached to the Soviet mission to the U.N. in New York City. Despite suspicions that the two were "dangles," double agents actually working for the Soviets, Top Hat went on to spy for the Americans in posts in Burma, India and the Soviet Union. When in 1978 it became clear to the U.S. that Fedora probably was a fraud, doubts about Top Hat's authenticity resurfaced...
...opposition figure confined to her home and permitted to see only immediate relatives be elected to Parliament? The military government of Burma is taking no chances with the charismatic Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest since July. Last week a regional election commission barred Suu Kyi, who rose to prominence during pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988, from running in elections scheduled for late...
...disqualification erased any pretense, which was already wearing thin, that the upcoming vote, the first multiparty election in Burma since 1960, would be legitimate. At least 2,000 government critics have been arrested since July...
South America is not the only place where the U.S. is putting pressure on friendly governments to crack down on the drug trade. But where the drug fight runs counter to other foreign policy objectives, the record is decidedly mixed. Standout example: in Burma the State Department last fall suspended support for Burma's antiopium campaign and ordered the DEA not to deal with Burmese officials. The action was meant to register displeasure with a repressive military regime, but some DEA agents contend that it disrupted still productive DEA-Burmese operations...
...improbable liberator for backward Burma, though perhaps born to the task. Her father was the national hero General Aung San, who led the struggle for independence from Britain only to be assassinated by a rival in July 1947, a mere six months before colonial rule ended. Until just over a year ago, Suu Kyi lived in England with her British husband Michael Aris and her two sons. Her return to Burma in April 1988 was a matter of happenstance: she came home to nurse her mother, who died last January. But the explosive antigovernment protests that gripped Burma swept...