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VIDEO: Myanmar opens a tad
10 May 2008 05:37:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
May 9 - Myanmar agrees to allow in US aid and issues visas to some foreign aid workers

But Myanmar seized a U.N. aid shipment and won't let in a US relief team.

Fred Katayama reports from New York.

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