Burma frees ailing American
Democrat senator secures release; move could aid relations
Posted: August 17, 2009 at 5:01 a.m.
Burma freed an ailing American whom it had sentenced to seven years of hard labor and handed him to an influential U.S senator on Sunday, a move that could help persuade Washington to soften its hardline policy against the military regime.
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