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U.S., Burma To Survey Opium Yields



Dow Jones Business News -- March 11, 1997
                                       U.S., Burma To Survey Opium Yields

                                       AP-Dow Jones News Service

                                       WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Burma have
agreed to undertake their third survey
                                       of opium yields in Burma, the U.S.
State Department said Tuesday.

                                       Spokesman Nicholas Burns said the
survey will provide a useful way to measure
                                       opium production in Burma.

                                       He said the agreement doesn' involve
any assistance to Burma and does nothing to
                                       take away U.S. concern about the
'negligent' Burmese attitude towards narcotics
                                       smuggling.