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U.S. labor leader urges Clinton to slap sanctions on Burma

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     The largest U.S. labor organization said Tuesday it has urged
President Bill Clinton to slap additional economic sanctions on
Myanmar in reaction to escalating suppression of democratic activists
and ethnic minorities by the impoverished Southeast Asian nation's
military government.
     ''I strongly urge you to endorse the law and impose sanctions
without any further delay,'' John Sweeney, president of the American
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization
(AFL-CIO), said in a letter to the president.  ''The evidence is
overwhelming that the conditions for implementing economic sanctions
have been met.''