Doctors Met Suu Kyi

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Suu Kyi Allowed To See Doctors

 .c The Associated Press 

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military government gave permission for
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's doctors to visit her today at the site of
a political protest. 

The government also sentenced two members of Suu Kyi's political party to
seven years in jail for handing out pro-democracy leaflets -- the same offense
for which 18 foreigners were deported last week, an exiled students group said
today. 

Suu Kyi and three colleagues have been holed up in a van 19 miles west of
Yangon for seven days. They were stopped there by authorities last Wednesday
while attempting to travel to the city of Bassein to meet members of her
political party. 

The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner has tried to travel outside Yangon four
times during the past two months and been stopped by the government at the
same checkpoint each time. 

A statement from Suu Kyi's political party, the National League for Democracy,
said her two personal physicians would visit her today. 

A government spokesman said this week Suu Kyi could not be allowed to travel
to Bassein because of threats against her life. 

Suu Kyi is popular with the people of Myanmar, also known as Burma, but the
regime does not allow her to make public appearances. The only physical attack
on Suu Kyi took place in November 1996 by a mob whose members said they were
paid by the government. 

In speeches reported in today's state-run New Light of Myanmar, three generals
in the ruling military council urged government workers to annihilate Suu Kyi
and her colleagues. 

Meanwhile, the All Burma Students Democratic Front, an exiled students group,
said two NLD members, Kyi Toe and Aung Than Nyunt, were sentenced last
Thursday for distributing leaflets containing a message from their party. 

The fate of nine other NLD members were also arrested was unknown, the group
said.