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Widow of Communist Party Chairman Released from Myanmar Prison

               AP
               12-JUL-99

               BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- The 80-year-old wife of the
late
               chairman of the Burmese Communist Party has been
               pardoned and released from prison, Myanmar''''s military
               government announced Monday. 

               Kyi Kyi, whose husband was killed by government soldiers
in
               1975, was sentenced in November 1989 to 20 years
               imprisonment under internal security provisions,
according to
               a government announcement faxed to The Associated Press
               in Bangkok. 

               The announcement said Kyi Kyi was pardoned and released
               Sunday "out of consideration of her age and regard for
her
               family." 

               Her late husband, Thakin Zin, was a veteran Communist
               leader who became party chairman in 1968 -- when the
               group was conducting an armed rebellion. The party broke
               up in 1989 due to internal dissension and government
               pressure. 

               Myanmar is also called Burma.