Senator meets Suu Kyi, wins Missouri man's release

Sunday, August 16, 2009

YANGON, Myanmar -- Stung by international outrage over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's ruling generals agreed Saturday to hand an American prisoner involved in her case to a visiting U.S. senator.

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