BBC-Burmese military reacts coolly (r)

[hfoote@xxxxxxxxxx]

I have received double posting of this, and many other items.  If this
cannot be resolved, I will reluctantly have to discontinue being on the
Burma listserv.  Very reluctantly, but I cannot come into the office every
day, be inundated with messages from this listserv and then find that some
are duplicates...or there are 3-5 wire service stories each day on the same
topic.  It is just unmanageable.   Heather Foote, Washington Office,
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.   9/18

At 07:36 AM 9/18/98, you wrote:
>
>Friday, September 18, 1998 Published at 11:51 GMT 12:51 UK 
>
>Burmese military reacts coolly to opposition move 
>
>The military government in Burma has accused the opposition National League
>for Democracy of trying to provoke it into harsh measures by setting up a
>committee to act on behalf of parliament. 
>
>A government statement said the committee's formation had been noted with
>interest, but the current authorities would continue to shoulder the real
>responsibilities of government. 
>
>The BBC South-East Asia correspondent says the government's cool reaction
>may be a sign of its confidence that, with more than eight hundred
>opposition members currently in detention, the formation of the committee
>is an act of political symbolism rather than substance. The government's
>statement came on the tenth anniversary of the military takeover in Burma. 
>
>
>
>>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
>
>
>
>
>