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...remarkable courage shown by Burma's marching monks last September captured the world's imagination. The protests encouraged Western governments, many of which first imposed economic sanctions against Rangoon a decade ago, to broaden those measures; the E.U., for example, has now banned a far wider range of exports from Burma...
...pockets, where they are vulnerable, while avoiding collateral damage to the wider Burmese population. Lower-profile financial measures also will appeal to China and to ASEAN, which is allergic to public shaming of the junta. Singapore, ASEAN's current chairman, has ruled out either imposing new sanctions or booting Burma out of ASEAN...
...junta and its business allies do not save their money in Burma's shambles of a banking system; they stash their hard currency in offshore centers. Tough but quiet financial sanctions, focusing on freezing assets of a list of junta leaders and their allies, could cut off the generals' income with little cost to average Burmese. These measures have worked against tyrants before; they disabled Serbian tyrant Slobodan Milosevic's finances and put pressure on North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il - after Washington publicly identified a bank in the Chinese territory of Macau as a major conduit for North Korean...
...Stallone held off from pandering so much that it didn't even have a training montage. But Rambo?the fourth one, and the first in 20 years?is a movie without apology for the foreign markets that still adore him: Rambo quickly gets talked into saving captured missionaries in Burma, and then Rambo kicks ass?age and the physics of ballistics be damned...
...good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours?see what happens," Stallone says. "I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned." So, after reading about the unrest in Burma in Soldier of Fortune magazine (You thought he subscribed to Better Homes and Gardens?), Stallone decided to set the film in Burma, shooting in Thailand and struggling to cast real Burmese, many of whom feared reprisals against family in their home country. Stallone says he regularly got threats from people...