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"Albright blasts Burma on drug cultivation"

"The Asian Age" Newspaper
Date March 4, 1999.

Nong Hoi, Thailand: US secretary of state Madeleine Albright admonished
Burma on Wednesday for failing to stop drug cultivation as she toured a
village in northern Thailand.
Ms. Albright stopped to talk to villagers at this settlement on the
outskirts of the northern Thai provincial capital of Chiang Mai, one of
the main smuggling routes for illicit drugs from the notorious Golden
Triangle drug growing region. (AFP)